Re: URGENT: patch to fix buffer overflow in cygwin1.dll in versions 1.7.2 to 1.7.5

2010-04-13 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 13 09:47, John Bowman wrote: > A serious buffer flow was introduced over 2 years ago (-r1.141 2008/02/14) > when support for wide characters was added. The change below unleashed > this bug, leading to random segmentation faults on forking when using > cygwin 1.7.2 to 1.7.5 (e.g. when runnin

URGENT: patch to fix buffer overflow in cygwin1.dll in versions 1.7.2 to 1.7.5

2010-04-13 Thread John Bowman
A serious buffer flow was introduced over 2 years ago (-r1.141 2008/02/14) when support for wide characters was added. The change below unleashed this bug, leading to random segmentation faults on forking when using cygwin 1.7.2 to 1.7.5 (e.g. when running kpsewhich or asymptote): 2009-12-18 Cori