Cpp Coding Standards/SECURITY/ValInput
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If your input comes from external, you must validate that input. Don't try to identify what's illegal and remove that from the input, do it the other way around: check what's legal (because you will likely forget cases of illegal input).
See also David Wheeler's excellent Secure Programming for Linux and Unix HOWTO.
