Symptoms
Assume that you use the CONTEXT_INFO system function in SQL Server 2014 or 2016. When you assign a hexadecimal value that ends with trailing zeros to context_info, every combination of two trailing zeros ('00') is truncated. Therefore, when you retrieve the context_info value by using the CONTEXT_INFO function, wrong values are returned.
Resolution
The issue was fixed in the following cumulative updates of SQL Server:
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Status
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section.
