KKoukuntla014680 (Community Member) asked a question.
Veracode reported "Unchecked Return Value" issue for below C language code snippet, how do we fix this?
char* str1;
char *oPtr = NULL;
char * pstr1;
pstr1 = oPtr = strdup(str1);
if (oPtr != NULL){
free(oPtr);
oPtr = NULL;
}
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Hi @KKoukuntla014680 (Community Member) ,
I'm not seeing why we would report a CWE 252 flaw on this code.
I would recommend you contact our technical support team. Here's how you can log a case:
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2. Select Contact Support from the drop-down menu.
Please include in your case a link to the results in the Veracode Platform ( for example something like: https://analysiscenter.veracode.com/auth/index.jsp#ReviewResultsStaticFlaws:... ) and the ID of the flaw.
Thank you,
Boy Baukema