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Mikhail Chalov authored
Minimize unsafe C functions usage - replace strcat() and strcpy() (and strncat() and strncpy()) with custom safe_strcat() and safe_strcpy() functions The MariaDB code base uses strcat() and strcpy() in several places. These are known to have memory safety issues and their usage is discouraged. Common security scanners like Flawfinder flags them. In MariaDB we should start using modern and safer variants on these functions. This is similar to memory issues fixes in 19af1890 and 9de9f105 but now replace use of strcat() and strcpy() with safer options strncat() and strncpy(). However, add '\0' forcefully to make sure the result string is correct since for these two functions it is not guaranteed what new string will be null-terminated. Example: size_t dest_len = sizeof(g->Message); strncpy(g->Message, "Null json tree", dest_len); strncat(g->Message, ":", sizeof(g->Message) - strlen(g->Message)); size_t wrote_sz = strlen(g->Message); size_t cur_len = wrote_sz >= dest_len ? dest_len - 1 : wrote_sz; g->Message[cur_len] = '\0'; All new code of the whole pull request, including one or several files that are either new files or modified ones, are contributed under the BSD-new license. I am contributing on behalf of my employer Amazon Web Services -- Reviewer and co-author Vicențiu Ciorbaru <vicentiu@mariadb.org> -- Reviewer additions: * The initial function implementation was flawed. Replaced with a simpler and also correct version. * Simplified code by making use of snprintf instead of chaining strcat. * Simplified code by removing dynamic string construction in the first place and using static strings if possible. See connect storage engine changes.
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