CWE CATEGORY: SEI CERT C Coding Standard - Guidelines 13. Application Programming Interfaces (API)
Category ID: 1168
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Summary
Weaknesses in this category are related to the rules and recommendations in the Application Programming Interfaces (API) section of the SEI CERT C Coding Standard.
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