package goodCodeComplexity; /* * This software was developed at the National Institute of Standards and * Technology by employees of the Federal Government in the course of their * official duties. Pursuant to title 17 Section 105 of the United States * Code this software is not subject to copyright protection and is in the * public domain. NIST assumes no responsibility whatsoever for its use by * other parties, and makes no guarantees, expressed or implied, about its * quality, reliability, or any other characteristic. * * This reference program was developed in June 2009 as part of the Software * Assurance Metrics And Tool Evaluation (SAMATE) project. * We would appreciate acknowledgment if the software is used. * The SAMATE project website is: http://samate.nist.gov */ /* * This code has a NULL Pointer Dereference CWE-476 vulnerability, with a * inter procedural scope complexity. http://cwe.mitre.org * Here we try to get the system property from a specified key and * then remove whitespace. If the key is unknown, cmd is null and the * NULL dereference exception is caught. */ import java.util.logging.Logger; public class NullPointerDereference_good_scope_476 { public String function( String cmd ) { cmd = cmd.trim(); // Returns the string, with leading and trailing whitespace omitted return cmd; } public NullPointerDereference_good_scope_476() { try { // Gets the system property indicated by the specified key String cmd = System.getProperty( "java.class.path" ); if ( cmd != null ) { cmd = function( cmd ); } } catch ( SecurityException re ) { final Logger logger = Logger.getAnonymousLogger(); String exception = "Exception " + re; logger.warning( exception ); } } public static void main( String[] argv ) { new NullPointerDereference_good_scope_476(); } } // end of NullPointerDereference_good_scope_476.java