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Date:	Wed, 6 Aug 2008 15:45:39 +0100
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Eric Blake wrote on 05 August 2008 02:29:

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> According to Mike Cappella on 8/4/2008 2:33 PM:
>> With the recent CVE security announcement regarding setup.exe:
>> 
>>    http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2008-3323
>> 
>> I'm wondering if perhaps it make sense to include the version number of
>> setup.exe on the main Cygwin web page?  It is currently seems to require
>> downloading setup.exe and running it to determine the version number.
> 
> On the other hand, the above vulnerability can only occur if you click
> beyond the screen displaying the version number, so there isn't really any
> harm in running setup.exe to determine whether it is new enough to avoid
> that particular bug.

  Also, we're going to add a link to the setup.exe gpg .sig file on the main
page; then the simple rule will be "If it has a gpg signature, it's the new
version".


    cheers,
      DaveK
-- 
Can't think of a witty .sigline today....


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