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Objective-C : Pointer incompatible with malloc call

Classification

OWASP Mobile Top 10 2016
M7-Poor Code Quality

Overview

The function result is cast to a pointer type that is incompatible with the used memory allocation function. This may lead to incorrect behavior or crash of the application.

References

  1. malloc - cplusplus.com
  2. Do I cast the result of malloc? - stackoverflow.com
  3. Mobile Top 10 2016-M7-Poor Code Quality
MEDIUM

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See also

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