Buffer overflow checks are really only going to be a linear growth in CC. It's when things move towards exponential growth or higher that it gets really easy to introduce flaws of many kinds.
replyNow, it's probably not a direct correlation. I'd think security bugs are more likely from programmers that unintentionally raise CC without really realizing it. Aka, overreaching their own knowledge when simpler structures are avaliable.
Sure. It’s just that there’s also so much research that has found that cyclomatic complexity is theoretically ill-founded, and that it tends to underperform other ways of measuring complexity. Most notably, just counting lines of code. (Not per function, in total.)
replyHere’s an oldie but goodie: https://cs.du.edu/~snarayan/sada/teaching/COMP3705/lecture/p...
I’ve personally had better success thinking of it as more of a measure of readability than of quality.