Bug 1371819

Summary: POSIX.1 declarations of bcopy or bzero doesn't use Object Size Checking functionality
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Adam Mariš <amaris>
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Description Adam Mariš 2016-08-31 08:12:33 UTC
It was found that code using the POSIX.1 declarations of bcopy or bzero in <strings.h> do not benefit from their available Object Size Checking functionality even when compiled with -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=*.

Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2016-08-31 08:12:48 UTC
Acknowledgments:

Name: Yaakov Selkowitz (Red Hat)

Comment 7 Tomas Hoger 2016-09-06 08:38:18 UTC
This is not considered a security vulnerability, but as a security enhancement.