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CWE-468: Incorrect Pointer Scaling

ID CWE-468
Abstraction Base
Structure Simple
Status Incomplete
Number of CVEs 2
Detail Dashboard Vulnerabilities Web & Social
In C and C++, one may often accidentally refer to the wrong memory due to the semantics of when math operations are implicitly scaled.

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Phase Note
Implementation Programmers may try to index from a pointer by adding a number of bytes. This is incorrect because C and C++ implicitly scale the operand by the size of the data type.

Applicable Platforms

Type Class Name Prevalence
Language C
Language C++

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# ID View Status # ID Name Abstraction Structure Status
CWE-1000 Research Concepts Draft CWE-682 Incorrect Calculation Pillar Simple Draft

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