CWE-588

Attempt to Access Child of a Non-structure Pointer

Variant

Incomplete

Casting a non-structure type to a structure type and accessing a field can lead to memory access errors or data corruption.

Parent Weaknesses (ChildOf)

Scope

Integrity

Impact

Modify Memory

Scope

Availability

Impact

DoS: Crash, Exit, or Restart

Requirements

The choice could be made to use a language that is not susceptible to these issues.

Implementation

Review of type casting operations can identify locations where incompatible types are cast.

JSON decoder accesses a C union using an invalid offset to an object

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