potentially-uninitialized-pointer.md

Potentially Uninitialized Pointer

This rule checks if a pointer has been initialized before being passed to a function. This might not always be an issue because it might be used as an output.

Triaging

• What is the pointer used for? Input or output?
• If input, what's being read from it?
• If output, is it initialized inside the function?
  • If not, does the function fill all of it?
  • If not, check where it's used. Does the program only read the parts filled by the function? We want to check if uninitialized data in the pointer are used or not.