diff --git a/lib/checkbufferoverrun.cpp b/lib/checkbufferoverrun.cpp
index 9e3651bf7..266432dd0 100644
--- a/lib/checkbufferoverrun.cpp
+++ b/lib/checkbufferoverrun.cpp
@@ -1079,6 +1079,30 @@ void CheckBufferOverrun::checkGlobalAndLocalVariable()
             if (value && value->intvalue > strLen)
                 bufferOverrunError(tok, tok->str());
         }
+
+        if (Token::Match(tok, "%var% [") && tok->variable() && tok->variable()->isPointer()) {
+            const ValueFlow::Value *value = tok->next()->astOperand2()->getMaxValue(false);
+            if (!value)
+                continue;
+
+            for (std::list<ValueFlow::Value>::const_iterator it = tok->values.begin(); it != tok->values.end(); ++it) {
+                if (!it->tokvalue)
+                    continue;
+                const Variable *var = it->tokvalue->variable();
+                if (var && var->isArray() && value->intvalue > var->dimension(0)) {
+                    std::list<const Token *> callstack;
+                    callstack.push_back(it->tokvalue);
+                    callstack.push_back(tok);
+
+                    std::vector<MathLib::bigint> index;
+                    index.push_back(value->intvalue);
+
+                    const ArrayInfo arrayInfo(var, _tokenizer, &_settings->library);
+
+                    arrayIndexOutOfBoundsError(callstack, arrayInfo, index);
+                }
+            }
+        }
     }
 
     // check all known fixed size arrays first by just looking them up
diff --git a/test/testbufferoverrun.cpp b/test/testbufferoverrun.cpp
index 4a97b379e..86fc4e937 100644
--- a/test/testbufferoverrun.cpp
+++ b/test/testbufferoverrun.cpp
@@ -2058,6 +2058,13 @@ private:
         check("namespace { class X { static const int x[100]; };\n" // #6232
               "const int X::x[100] = {0}; }", false, "test.cpp");
         ASSERT_EQUALS("", errout.str());
+
+        check("void f() {\n"
+              "  int a[10];\n"
+              "  int *p = a;\n"
+              "  p[20] = 0;\n"
+              "}");
+        ASSERT_EQUALS("[test.cpp:3] -> [test.cpp:4]: (error) Array 'a[10]' accessed at index 20, which is out of bounds.\n", errout.str());
     }
 
     void array_index_function_parameter() {