diff --git a/lib/include/internal/string.h b/lib/include/internal/string.h
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..17ac9af1e44
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/include/internal/string.h
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+/*
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
+ *
+ * Copyright (c) 2024, STMicroelectronics
+ *
+ */
+
+#include <string.h>
+
+size_t strlcpy(char *dest, const char *src, size_t size);
diff --git a/lib/utils/CMakeLists.txt b/lib/utils/CMakeLists.txt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..dd4c75935cf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/utils/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+collect (PROJECT_LIB_SOURCES string.c)
diff --git a/lib/utils/string.c b/lib/utils/string.c
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..e438321eb76
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/utils/string.c
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+/*
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
+ *
+ * Copyright (c) 2024, STMicroelectronics
+ *
+ */
+
+#include <internal/string.h>
+
+/**
+ * @internal
+ *
+ * @brief Copies a string to a destination buffer with size limitation and returns the length of
+ *        the source string.
+ *
+ * This function copies up to `size - 1` characters from the source string `src`
+ * to the destination buffer `dest`, ensuring that the destination buffer is
+ * null-terminated. The function returns the length of the source string `src`.
+ * If the length of `src` is greater than or equal to `size`, the destination
+ * buffer will be truncated.
+ *
+ * @param dst Destination buffer where the string will be copied.
+ * @param src Source string to be copied.
+ * @param size Size of the destination buffer.
+ * @return The length of the source string `src`.
+ *
+ * @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: this code is inspired from the strlcpy.c file from freeBSD .
+ */
+
+size_t
+strlcpy(char *dst, const char *src, size_t size)
+{
+	size_t nleft = size;
+
+	/* Copy as many bytes as will fit. */
+	if (nleft != 0) {
+		while (--nleft != 0) {
+			*dst = *src++;
+			if (*dst++ == '\0')
+				break;
+		}
+	}
+
+	/* Not enough room in dst, add NUL and traverse rest of src. */
+	if (nleft == 0 && size != 0)
+		*dst = '\0';		/* NUL-terminate dst */
+
+	return strlen(src);
+}
diff --git a/open-amp/lib/CMakeLists.txt b/open-amp/lib/CMakeLists.txt
index f8f9e2fcc6d..145116711db 100644
--- a/open-amp/lib/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/open-amp/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")