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Re:The hijacking flaw that lurked in Intel chips is worse th... by pabl0rg on Sunday May 07, 2017 @02:13AM (#14284142)
If you access a memory location beyond the end of the string, you can get all sorts of unexpected behavior. The string's length is something you'll pretty much always need to take into account.
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Re:The hijacking flaw that lurked in Intel chips is worse th... by DaiPlusPlus on Sunday May 07, 2017 @02:37AM (#14284205)
Many libraries and systems (e.g. Win32) just go with null-terminated strings and their functions don't accept a length argument at all - so I wonder if some people never store the length simply because they don't believe they'll ever need it.
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