Re: CPPCheck found 24 high risk bugs in Git v.1.8.3.4

["Philip Oakley" <philipoakley@iee.org>]

From: "Koch, Rick (Subcontractor)" <Rick.Koch@tbe.com>
Sent: Monday, August 19, 2013 6:09 PM
>I'm directing to this e-mail, as it seems to be the approved forum
>for posting Git bugs. We ran CPPCheck against Git v.1.8.3.4
>and found 24 high risk bugs. Please see the attachment xlsx.

>Is there a method to post to the Git community to allow the
>community to review and debunk as faults positive or develop
>patches to fix lists code files?

>v/r

>Roderick (Rick) Koch
>Information Assurance
>Rick.Koch@tbe.com

What OS version / CPPCheck version was this checked on?

In case other readers don't have a .xlsx reader here is Rick's list in 
plain text (may be white space damaged).

I expect some will be false positives, and some will just be being too 
cautious.

Philip

 description resourceFilePath fileName lineNumber
      nullPointer(CppCheck) \git-master\builtin\add.c add.c 286
      wrongPrintfScanfArgNum(CppCheck) \git-master\builtin\fetch.c
fetch.c 588
      nullPointer(CppCheck) \git-master\builtin\ls-files.c ls-files.c
144
      nullPointer(CppCheck) \git-master\builtin\merge.c merge.c 1208
      doubleFree(CppCheck) \git-master\builtin\notes.c notes.c 275
      nullPointer(CppCheck) \git-master\builtin\reflog.c reflog.c 437
      uninitvar(CppCheck) \git-master\builtin\rev-list.c rev-list.c 342
      uninitvar(CppCheck) \git-master\builtin\rev-list.c rev-list.c 342
      uninitvar(CppCheck) \git-master\compat\regex\regcomp.c regcomp.c
2803
      uninitvar(CppCheck) \git-master\compat\regex\regcomp.c regcomp.c
2802
      uninitvar(CppCheck) \git-master\compat\regex\regcomp.c regcomp.c
2805
      memleakOnRealloc(CppCheck) \git-master\compat\win32\syslog.c
syslog.c 46
      uninitvar(CppCheck)
\git-master\contrib\examples\builtin-fetch--tool.c builtin-fetch--tool.c
419
      uninitvar(CppCheck) \git-master\fast-import.c fast-import.c 2917
      nullPointer(CppCheck) \git-master\line-log.c line-log.c 638
      nullPointer(CppCheck) \git-master\mailmap.c mailmap.c 156
      uninitvar(CppCheck) \git-master\merge-recursive.c
merge-recursive.c 1887
      uninitvar(CppCheck) \git-master\notes.c notes.c 805
      uninitvar(CppCheck) \git-master\notes.c notes.c 805
      deallocret(CppCheck) \git-master\pretty.c pretty.c 677
      resourceLeak(CppCheck) \git-master\refs.c refs.c 3041
      doubleFree(CppCheck) \git-master\sequencer.c sequencer.c 924
      nullPointer(CppCheck) \git-master\sha1_file.c sha1_file.c 125
      doubleFree(CppCheck) \git-master\shell.c shell.c 130