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2013.08.01 09:21 "[Tiff] Vulnerabilities in libtiff 4.0.3", by Pedro Ribeiro
2013.09.20 16:09 "Re: [Tiff] Vulnerabilities in libtiff 4.0.3", by Lee Howard
2013.09.20 16:24 "Re: [Tiff] Vulnerabilities in libtiff 4.0.3", by Bob Friesenhahn
2013.09.20 16:34 "Re: [Tiff] Vulnerabilities in libtiff 4.0.3", by Lee Howard
2013.09.20 16:59 "Re: [Tiff] Vulnerabilities in libtiff 4.0.3", by Olivier Paquet
2013.09.20 17:05 "Re: [Tiff] Vulnerabilities in libtiff 4.0.3", by Bob Friesenhahn
2013.09.20 17:02 "Re: [Tiff] Vulnerabilities in libtiff 4.0.3", by Bob Friesenhahn
2013.09.20 17:21 "Re: [Tiff] Vulnerabilities in libtiff 4.0.3", by Lee Howard
2013.09.24 06:55 "Re: [Tiff] Vulnerabilities in libtiff 4.0.3", by Albert Cahalan

2013.09.20 17:05 "Re: [Tiff] Vulnerabilities in libtiff 4.0.3", by Bob Friesenhahn

Perhaps Bob confused it with strncpy which does have that problem. The man page wording on linux is a little ambiguous but the OS X one is quite clear and other online references also state that the null is always added by snprintf. glibc certainly does add it.

Yes, Bob was likely confused. :-)

Bob
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