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Module Printf

A library for dealing with printf-like formatting strings.

Import path

import semmle.code.cpp.commons.Printf

Imports

CommonType
FormattingFunction

Provides a class for modeling printf-style formatting functions. To use this QL library, create a QL class extending FormattingFunction with a characteristic predicate that selects the function or set of functions you are modeling. Within that class, override the predicates provided by FormattingFunction to match the flow within that function.

StringAnalysis

Provides a class for calculating the possible length of string expressions.

Type

Provides a hierarchy of classes for modeling C/C++ types.

Predicates

primitiveVariadicFormatter

A standard function such as vprintf that has a format parameter and a variable argument list of type va_arg. formatParamIndex indicates the format parameter and type indicates the type of vprintf: - "" is a vprintf variant, outputParamIndex is -1. - "f" is a vfprintf variant, outputParamIndex indicates the output stream parameter. - "s" is a vsprintf variant, outputParamIndex indicates the output buffer parameter. - "?" if the type cannot be determined. outputParamIndex is -1.

variadicFormatter

Holds if f is a function such as vprintf that has a format parameter and a variable argument list of type va_arg. formatParamIndex indicates the format parameter and type indicates the type of vprintf: - "" is a vprintf variant, outputParamIndex is -1. - "f" is a vfprintf variant, outputParamIndex indicates the output stream parameter. - "s" is a vsprintf variant, outputParamIndex indicates the output buffer parameter. - "?" if the type cannot be determined. outputParamIndex is -1.

Classes

AttributeFormattingFunction

A function that can be identified as a printf style formatting function by its use of the GNU format attribute.

BufferWriteEstimationReason

A reason for a specific buffer write size estimate.

FormatLiteral

A class to represent format strings that occur as arguments to invocations of formatting functions.

FormattingFunctionCall

A call to one of the formatting functions.

PrintfFormatAttribute
TypeBoundsAnalysis

The estimation comes from rough bounds just based on the type (e.g. 0 <= x < 2^32 for an unsigned 32 bit integer).

UnspecifiedEstimateReason

No particular reason given. This is currently used for backward compatibility so that classes derived from BufferWrite and overriding getMaxData/0 still work with the queries as intended.

UserDefinedFormattingFunction

A function not in the standard library which takes a printf-like formatting string and a variable number of arguments.

ValueFlowAnalysis

The estimation comes from non trivial bounds found via actual flow analysis. For example unsigned u = x; if (u < 1000) { //... <- estimation done here based on u }

WidenedValueFlowAnalysis

The estimation comes from non trivial bounds found via actual flow analysis, but a widening approximation might have been used for variables in loops. For example for (int i = 0; i < 10; ++i) { int j = i + i; //... <- estimation done here based on j }