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6.2 million programmers, just like you, helping each other. Join them; it only takes a minute: Sign up How dangerous is it to access an array out of bounds? up vote 189 down vote favorite 41 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9137157/no-out-of-bounds-error How dangerous is accessing an array outside of its bounds (in C)? It can sometimes happen that I read from outside the array (I now understand I then access memory used by some other parts of my program or even beyond that) or I am trying to set a value to an index outside of the array. The program sometimes crashes, but sometimes just runs, only giving unexpected results. Now what I http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15646973/how-dangerous-is-it-to-access-an-array-out-of-bounds would like to know is, how dangerous is this really? If it damages my program, it is not so bad. If on the other hand it breaks something outside my program, because I somehow managed to access some totally unrelated memory, then it is very bad, I imagine. I read a lot of 'anything can happen', 'segmentation might be the least bad problem', 'your harddisk might turn pink and unicorns might be singing under your window', which is all nice, but what is really the danger? My questions: Can reading values from way outside the array damage anything apart from my program? I would imagine just looking at things does not change anything, or would it for instance change the 'last time opened' attribute of a file I happened to reach? Can setting values way out outside of the array damage anything apart from my program? From this stackoverflow question I gather that it is possible to access any memory location, that there is no safety guarantee. I now run my small programs from within XCode. Does that provide some extra protection around my program where it cannot reach outside its own memory? Can it harm XCode? Any recommendations on how to run my inherently buggy code safely? I use OSX 10.7, Xcode 4.6 Thi
GitExtensions bugs found and analyzed As it is known, the Git kernel is a utility set of a command line with parameters. Usually, we use ... Read more 12.10.2016 Toyota: 81 http://www.viva64.com/en/t/0071/ 514 issues in the code A story about the fact that the software is penetrating more and more in our daily life. However, with the ... Read more 10.10.2016 Killer Bug. Therac-25: Quick-and-Dirty https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bounds_checking Program code started using machines to kill people as early as in 1985. Read more Follow our CTO: Tweets by @Code_Analysis Home Terminology Array index out of bounds 06.03.2013 Array index out out of of bounds The array index out of bounds error is a special case of the buffer overflow error. It occurs when the index used to address array items exceeds the allowed value. It's the area outside the array bounds which is being addressed, that's why this situation is considered a case of undefined behavior. Absence of array overrun control in C and C++ is out of bound the factor that makes this error possible. The array index out of bounds error can be diagnosed with static or dynamic code analyzers. Diagnostics for these defects are quite urgent, as it may take much time before these errors reveal themselves. Whether a program containing them will work or not depends on the compiler version or operating system version. Here are some examples of this error found in the code of real open-source projects by the PVS-Studio static analyzer. The Dumb project, Dynamic Universal Music Bibliotheque. struct IT_SAMPLE { .... unsigned char filename[14]; .... }; static int it_riff_dsmf_process_sample( IT_SAMPLE * sample, const unsigned char * data, int len) { int flags; memcpy( sample->filename, data, 13 ); sample->filename[ 14 ] = 0; .... } The 'filename' array consists of 14 items, but the 'it_riff_dsmf_process_sample' function addresses the 14-th item lying outside the array bounds. Programmers often make this mistake because they forget that array indexing in C/C++ starts with zero and ends with a value that is one less than the array size. Let's have a look at one more similar error. The Wolfenstein 3D project, a computer game by 'id Software'. typ
to improve this article by introducing more precise citations. (March 2012) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) In computer programming, bounds checking is any method of detecting whether a variable is within some bounds before it is used. It is usually used to ensure that a number fits into a given type (range checking), or that a variable being used as an array index is within the bounds of the array (index checking). A failed bounds check usually results in the generation of some sort of exception signal. Because performing bounds checking during every usage is time-consuming, it is not always done. Bounds-checking elimination is a compiler optimization technique that eliminates unneeded bounds checking. Contents 1 Range checking 2 Index checking 3 Data validation 4 See also 5 References Range checking[edit] A range check is a check to make sure a number is within a certain range; for example, to ensure that a value about to be assigned to a sixteen-bit integer is within the capacity of a sixteen-bit integer (i.e. checking against wrap-around). This is not quite the same as type checking. Other range checks may be more restrictive; for example, a variable to hold the number of a calendar month may be declared to accept only the range 1 to 12. Index checking[edit] Index checking means that, in all expressions indexing an array, the index value is checked against the bounds of the array (which were established when the array was defined), and if the index is out-of-bounds, further execution is suspended via some sort of error. Because using a number outside of the upper range in an array may cause the program to crash, or may introduce security vulnerabilities (see buffer overflow), index checking is a part of many high-level languages. Pascal, Fortran, Java have index checking ability. The VAX computer has an INDEX assembly instruction for array index checking which takes six operands, all of which can use any VAX addressing mode. The B6500 and similar Burroughs computers