Reporting security vulnerability

Reporting security vulnerability

[Evyatar Gerzi]

Hello,

I saw that you have a mailing list for bug reporting but the bug that I
found is a security vulnerability, to whom I need to report it?
I don't know if it is good that it will be "read by many people", but it's
your call.

Thanks,

Eviatar Gerzi

Re: Reporting security vulnerability

[Adam Dinwoodie]

On Thu, 25 Feb 2021 at 10:12, Evyatar Gerzi via Cygwin wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I saw that you have a mailing list for bug reporting but the bug that I
> found is a security vulnerability, to whom I need to report it?
> I don't know if it is good that it will be "read by many people", but it's
> your call.

Hi Evyatar,

Can you narrow down where the security vulnerability is? Different
parts of Cygwin have different maintainers – each package has its own
maintainer, as well as separate ownership of the core Cygwin DLL and
things like the Cygwin website – and I expect different maintainers
might prefer different approaches.


Adam

Re: Reporting security vulnerability

[Evyatar Gerzi]

Sorry, I just noticed that Thomas is one of the authors and he is already
familiar with this issue and fixed it.
I will send him separate mail and ask him if there is also a fix for Cygwin.

Thanks,

Eviatar

On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 12:08 PM Evyatar Gerzi <evyatar575@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I saw that you have a mailing list for bug reporting but the bug that I
> found is a security vulnerability, to whom I need to report it?
> I don't know if it is good that it will be "read by many people", but it's
> your call.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Eviatar Gerzi
>
>

Re: Reporting security vulnerability

[Evyatar Gerzi]

My apologies again, I am not sure to whom I should address the
vulnerability.
Because Thomas fixed it in MinTTY but I don't know who is responsible to
implement it inside Cygwin.

I appreciate your help, thanks,

Eviatar Gerzi

On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 1:10 PM Evyatar Gerzi <evyatar575@gmail.com> wrote:

> Sorry, I just noticed that Thomas is one of the authors and he is already
> familiar with this issue and fixed it.
> I will send him separate mail and ask him if there is also a fix for
> Cygwin.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Eviatar
>
> On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 12:08 PM Evyatar Gerzi <evyatar575@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I saw that you have a mailing list for bug reporting but the bug that I
>> found is a security vulnerability, to whom I need to report it?
>> I don't know if it is good that it will be "read by many people", but
>> it's your call.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Eviatar Gerzi
>>
>>

Re: Reporting security vulnerability

[Thomas Wolff]

Am 25.02.2021 um 13:57 schrieb Evyatar Gerzi via Cygwin:
> My apologies again, I am not sure to whom I should address the
> vulnerability.
> Because Thomas fixed it in MinTTY but I don't know who is responsible to
> implement it inside Cygwin.
The fix is included in 3.4.6, released as a Cygwin package.
Just not to worry too much, it was a denial-of-service style thing, not 
an intrusion vulnerability.
Thomas

> I appreciate your help, thanks,
>
> Eviatar Gerzi
>
> On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 1:10 PM Evyatar Gerzi <evyatar575@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Sorry, I just noticed that Thomas is one of the authors and he is already
>> familiar with this issue and fixed it.
>> I will send him separate mail and ask him if there is also a fix for
>> Cygwin.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Eviatar
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 12:08 PM Evyatar Gerzi <evyatar575@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I saw that you have a mailing list for bug reporting but the bug that I
>>> found is a security vulnerability, to whom I need to report it?
>>> I don't know if it is good that it will be "read by many people", but
>>> it's your call.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Eviatar Gerzi
>>>
>>>
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