CWE-1087

Class with Virtual Method without a Virtual Destructor. [Bad-Coding-Practices, Improper-Adherence-To-Coding-Standards]

Required inputs: IR

A class contains a virtual method, but the method does not have an associated virtual destructor.

This issue can prevent the product from running reliably, e.g. due to undefined behavior. If the relevant code is reachable by an attacker, then this reliability problem might introduce a vulnerability.

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Possible Messages

Key	Text	Severity	Disabled
missing_virtual_destructor	Class needs a virtual destructor.	None	False

Options

• This rule shares the following common options: exclude_in_macros, exclude_messages_in_system_headers, excludes, extend_exclude_to_macro_invocations, includes, justification_checker, languages, post_processing, provider, report_at, severity

• The following places define options that affect this rule: Stylechecks, Analysis-GlobalOptions

accept_none_destructor

accept_none_destructor : bool = True

If set true, classes without any destructor are tolerated.