Extract some of #3360 fixes to 10.11.x #3518
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The Jira issue number for this PR is: MDEV-21978While this code originates from my GSoC project, this publication (i.e., commit and PR descriptions) isn’t.
Description
#3360 uncovered countless potential minor security vulnerabilities on
my_snprintf
uses.This commit ports a squashed subset of their fixes according to the bug-fixing process to 10.11, covering cases that weren’t applicable for 10.5 (#3485) and 10.6 (#3493).
(My GSoC mentor said that they aren’t much of a problem and I can open a PR normally.)
Similar to the previous iterations, I haven’t searched issues obsolete in 11.6.
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How can this PR be tested?
I’m not certain how we could catch these human errors besides testing #3360 (MDEV-21978) and syncing this PR with it.
Basing the PR against the correct MariaDB version
main
branch.PR quality check