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Re: Security hole in gnu-win32-gcc
- To: Charles_Boatwright at cisnc dot canon dot com (Boatwright Charles)
- Subject: Re: Security hole in gnu-win32-gcc
- From: Geoffrey Noer <noer at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 15:56:25 -0700 (PDT)
- Cc: kroening at hit dot handshake dot de, gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
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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