CERT.STR.ARG.CONST_TO_NONCONST
Do not pass a const char pointer to a non-const char pointer argument.
Vulnerability and risk
String literals are created at compile time to be of sufficient length and null terminated. The behavior is undefined if a program attempts to modify any portion of a string literal. Ideally, they should be assigned only to pointers to (or arrays of) const char or const whar_t.
This checker looks for assignments of string literals or const string pointers to non-const function argument pointers.
Mitigation and prevention
Use "const" on argument declarations when the pointer shouldn't modify a string.
Example
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void func_v1(void) {
const char *aLiteral = "/tmp/abXXXXXX";
mkstemp("/tmp/edXXXXXX");
mkstemp(aLiteral);
}Violations will be reported on lines 3 and 4.