Re: [oss-security] Re: Trailing dot in Cygwin filenames [was: failed to clone iptables,ipset,nftables]

[Werner Koch]

Hi!

> But Cygwin does something unusual, it *actually* creates a file with
> the 2-char sequence "y.", through whatever means. Explorer *shows* it

  C:\Users\dd9jn\test>echo foo >x.
  
  C:\Users\dd9jn\test>dir
  [...]
  28.04.2025  11:30                 6 x
                 1 Datei(en),              6 Bytes
  
  C:\Users\dd9jn\test>echo foo >\\?\\c:\users\dd9jn\test\x.
  
  C:\Users\dd9jn\test>dir
  [...]
  28.04.2025  11:30                 6 x
  28.04.2025  11:30                 6 x.
                 2 Datei(en),             12 Bytes
  
Thus you can create such a file using the Extended Path Length Prefix
which bypasses the mapping used by CreateFile.  For detailed info see
also

https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2016/02/the-definitive-guide-on-win32-to-nt.html



Salam-Shalom,

   Werner

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