diff --git a/lib/CMakeLists.txt b/lib/CMakeLists.txt
index f8f9e2f..1451167 100644
--- a/lib/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/lib/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ collect (PROJECT_LIB_SOURCES version.c)
 add_subdirectory (virtio)
 add_subdirectory (rpmsg)
 add_subdirectory (remoteproc)
+add_subdirectory (utils)
 if (WITH_VIRTIO_MMIO_DRV)
 add_subdirectory (virtio_mmio)
 endif (WITH_VIRTIO_MMIO_DRV)
@@ -23,6 +24,7 @@ set (OPENAMP_LIB open_amp)
 
 configure_file(version.h.in ${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/include/generated/openamp/version_def.h)
 collect (PROJECT_INC_DIRS " ${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/include/generated/openamp")
+collect (PROJECT_INC_DIRS " ${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/include/internal")
 
 if (NOT CMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR)
 	set (CMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR "lib")
diff --git a/lib/include/internal/utilities.h b/lib/include/internal/utilities.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..bedee9b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/include/internal/utilities.h
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+/*
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
+ *
+ * Copyright (c) 2024, STMicroelectronics
+ *
+ */
+
+#include <string.h>
+
+/**
+ * @internal
+ *
+ * @brief Copies a string to a destination buffer with size limitation and returns the length of
+ *        the destination string.
+ *
+ * This function copies up to `s_size - 1` characters from the source string `src`
+ * to the destination buffer `dst`, ensuring that the destination buffer is
+ * null-terminated. The function returns the length of the `dst` string.
+ * If the length of `src` string is greater than or equal to `d_size`, the destination
+ * buffer will be truncated.
+ *
+ * @param dst    Destination buffer where the string will be copied.
+ * @param d_size Size of the destination buffer.
+ * @param src    Source string to be copied.
+ * @param s_size Size of the source buffer.
+ * @return       The length of the string contained in the `dst` buffer.
+ *
+ * @note If the size of the destination buffer is 0, the function does not copy any characters and
+ *       the destination buffer is not null-terminated.
+ * @note The function ensures that the destination buffer is always null-terminated if `size` is
+ *       greater than 0.
+ * @note The function ensures that no data is read past the end of the 'src' buffer.
+ */
+size_t safe_strcpy(char *dst, size_t d_size, const char *src, size_t s_size);
+
diff --git a/lib/utils/CMakeLists.txt b/lib/utils/CMakeLists.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..33fdf13
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/utils/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+collect (PROJECT_LIB_SOURCES utilities.c)
diff --git a/lib/utils/utilities.c b/lib/utils/utilities.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..97115e5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/utils/utilities.c
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+/*
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
+ *
+ * Copyright (c) 2024, STMicroelectronics
+ *
+ */
+
+#include <internal/utilities.h>
+#include <metal/io.h>
+#include <metal/utilities.h>
+
+size_t safe_strcpy(char *dst, size_t d_size, const char *src, size_t s_size)
+{
+	size_t size = metal_min(s_size, d_size);
+	size_t nleft = size + 1;
+	char *d = dst;
+
+	if (!d_size)
+		return 0;
+
+	/* Copy as many bytes as will fit. */
+	while (--nleft != 0) {
+		*dst = *src++;
+		if (*dst++ == '\0')
+			break;
+	}
+
+	/* Fill last characters with '\0' */
+	if (size < d_size)
+		memset(dst, '\0',  d_size - size + nleft);
+	else
+		d[d_size - 1] = '\0';
+
+	return size - nleft;
+}