GMS-2015-38: Insecure Comparison

October 24, 2015

Secure-compare does not actually compare two strings properly. compare actually compares the first argument with itself, meaning the check passes for any two strings of the same length.

References

github.com/vdemedes/secure-compare/pull/1

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