Result of multiplication cast to wider type¶

ID: java/integer-multiplication-cast-to-long
Kind: problem
Security severity: 
Severity: warning
Precision: very-high
Tags:
   - quality
   - reliability
   - correctness
   - types
   - external/cwe/cwe-190
   - external/cwe/cwe-192
   - external/cwe/cwe-197
   - external/cwe/cwe-681
Query suites:
   - java-code-quality.qls
   - java-security-and-quality.qls

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An integer multiplication that is assigned to a variable of type long or returned from a method with return type long may cause unexpected arithmetic overflow.

Recommendation¶

Casting to type