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Remove getString, which is not used, and was insecure to boot#1966

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Remove getString, which is not used, and was insecure to boot#1966
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@kripken kripken commented Mar 26, 2019

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@kripken kripken requested a review from tlively March 26, 2019 16:18

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Woo codebase DCE
Out of curiosity, is the insecurity due to the lack of null-byte sanitation?

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@jgravelle-google a malformed module could claim the string has an arbitrarily large size, which could cause an out-of-bounds read.

@kripken kripken merged commit 596ad82 into master Mar 26, 2019
@kripken kripken deleted the getString-fix branch March 26, 2019 21:53
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