Characters and Strings (STR)

Information for Editors
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Risk Assessment Summary

Rule	Severity	Likelihood	Detectable	Repairable	Priority	Level
STR00-C	Medium	Probable	No	No	P4	L3
STR01-C	Low	Unlikely	No	No	P1	L3
STR02-C	High	Likely	No	No	P9	L2
STR03-C	Medium	Probable	No	No	P4	L3
STR04-C	Low	Unlikely	No	Yes	P2	L3
STR05-C	Low	Unlikely	Yes	Yes	P3	L3
STR06-C	Medium	Likely	No	No	P6	L2
STR08-C	High	Probable	No	No	P6	L2
STR09-C	Low	Unlikely	Yes	No	P2	L3
STR10-C	Low	Probable	Yes	No	P4	L3
STR11-C	Low	Probable	Yes	Yes	P6	L2


FIO20-C. Avoid unintentional truncation when using fgets() or fgetws()
FIO30-C. Exclude user input from format strings
FIO40-C. Reset strings on fgets() or fgetws() failure
FIO47-C. Use valid format strings
INT07-C. Use only explicitly signed or unsigned char type for numeric values
POS30-C. Use the readlink() function properly
STR37-C. Arguments to character-handling functions must be representable as an unsigned char