libutil: avoid an out-of-bounds read in trimdomain(3)
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Authored by kevans on Jan 9 2026, 5:00 PM.

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olce
des

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rGf268f95955f5: libutil: avoid an out-of-bounds read in trimdomain(3)

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memchr(3) will happily believe we've passed in a valid object, but
hostsize could easily exceed the bounds of fullhost. Clamp it down to
the string size to be safe and avoid UB.

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kevans created this revision.Jan 9 2026, 5:00 PM

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Harbormaster completed remote builds in B69766: Diff 169405.Jan 9 2026, 5:00 PM

kevans added a parent revision: D54622: libutil: take a size_t in trimdomain().Jan 9 2026, 5:00 PM

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This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Feb 17 2026, 5:02 PM

Closed by commit rGf268f95955f5: libutil: avoid an out-of-bounds read in trimdomain(3) (authored by kevans). · Explain WhyMar 3 2026, 10:51 PM

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kevans added a commit: rGf268f95955f5: libutil: avoid an out-of-bounds read in trimdomain(3).

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