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This rule appears in the C++ Secure Coding Standard as STR03-CPP. Do not inadvertently truncate a null-terminated byte string.

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\[[ISO/IEC 9899:1999|AA. C References#ISO/IEC 9899-1999]\] Section 7.21, "String handling <string.h>"
\[[ISO/IEC PDTR 24772|AA. C References#ISO/IEC PDTR 24772]\] "CJM String Termination"
\[[ISO/IEC TR 24731-1:2007|AA. C References#ISO/IEC TR 24731-1-2007]\]
\[[MITRE 07|AA. C References#MITRE 07]\] [CWE ID 170|http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/170.html], "Improper Null Termination," [CWE ID 464|http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/464.html], "Addition of Data Structure Sentinel"
\[[Seacord 05a|AA. C References#Seacord 05a]\] Chapter 2, "Strings"

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