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Message-ID: <54717EBF.2020100@internot.info>
Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2014 17:29:19 +1100
From: Joshua Rogers <oss@...ernot.info>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Off-by-one question
On 23/11/14 03:47, Stuart Gathman wrote:
>>
> The snippet will print Fou. The contract for strncpy is:
>
> The strncpy() function is similar, except that at most n bytes
> of src
> are copied. Warning: If there is no null byte among the first
> n bytes
> of src, the string placed in dest will not be null terminated.
>
> So you are correct. Unless strncpy is broken.
That's what I thought.
I wonder why MITRE says otherwise.
Thanks Stuart and Simon.
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-- Joshua Rogers <https://internot.info/>
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