GLibC

  1. Bug #305901
  2. Comment #44

Comment 44 for bug 305901

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In , Kees Cook (kees) wrote :

So I'd like to bring this back up and reiterate the issue: there is no benefit to the early truncation, and it actively breaks lots of existing software (which is why Debian and Ubuntu have had this fix for 10 years now).

What is the _benefit_ of early truncation that justifies breaking so many existing cases?

Can glibc please take this patch? http://paste.ubuntu.com/p/CbrxmSfKD4/