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Perhaps we now finally know the story behind this: https://code.google.com/p/android-source-browsing/source/dif...

"probably can live undetected quite long" indeed...

So memset was crippled from Android 1.5-2.1? How did this not bring everything to a grinding halt? (Not familiar with Android's inner workings specifically, but from a C standpoint this sounds major.)

How often is memset used to set the data to something other than zero? Probably even less often than strncpy copies a string that is exactly the length of the destination, I'd wager :)

That is the evil genius of this bug.

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