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From: Geoffrey Noer <noer@cygnus.com>
To: Charles_Boatwright@cisnc.canon.com (Boatwright Charles)
Cc: kroening@hit.handshake.de, gnu-win32@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: Security hole in gnu-win32-gcc
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 15:56:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <199709122256.PAA03363@rtl.cygnus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5F404EEF30B3CF11B76B00000000000182E567@cisncdc>

Boatwright, Charles wrote:
[...]
> This is not a ( new ) security hole.  This will always happen on Win95.
> NT is another story.
[...]

I just wanted to give a disclaimer which most of you hopefully assume
anyway: Cygwin32 has not been analyzed for security issues much if it all.
I would be surprised if there weren't some serious holes, although I am
not currently aware of any.

-- 
Geoffrey Noer
noer@cygnus.com
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  reply	other threads:[~1997-09-12 15:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1997-09-11 10:00 Boatwright, Charles
1997-09-12 15:56 ` Geoffrey Noer [this message]
     [not found] <009BA1E2.EA079D00.23009@ifk20.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de>
1997-09-11  0:49 ` Mikey
1997-09-11  9:20   ` David Dyck
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1997-09-10 10:28 Daniel Kroening
1997-09-11 10:00 ` jman

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