CWE-688
Function Call With Incorrect Variable or Reference as Argument
Description
The product calls a function, procedure, or routine, but the caller specifies the wrong variable or reference as one of the arguments, which may lead to undefined behavior and resultant weaknesses.
Parent Weaknesses (ChildOf)
Common Consequences
Scope
Impact
Quality Degradation
Potential Mitigations
Because this function call often produces incorrect behavior it will usually be detected during testing or normal operation of the product. During testing exercise all possible control paths will typically expose this weakness except in rare cases when the incorrect function call accidentally produces the correct results or if the provided argument type is very similar to the expected argument type.
CVE-2005-2548Kernel code specifies the wrong variable in first argument, leading to resultant NULL pointer dereference.
Applicable Platforms
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