[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cabextract-1.6-1

2015-03-25 Thread Kyzer
Version1.6-1 of "cabextract" has been uploaded. cabextract is a utility for extracting Microsoft Cabinet (.CAB) files This update fixes a number of security bugs: * CVE-2014-9556: A CAB file with invalid file offset or length (where offset + length == 2^32) causes an infinite loop in the Quantum

With bad UTF-8, cygwin can create files it can't read

2015-03-25 Thread Kyzer
Hello, I've found that if you use cygwin to create a file with badly-encoded UTF-8, readdir() gives out an entry with a name that cygwin won't subsequently accept. * create a file using filename with hex bytes F4 8F BF BF * readdir() reports the filename as hex bytes E2 8E B3 ED BF BF * attemptin

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cabextract 1.3-1

2010-08-05 Thread Kyzer
Version 1.3 of cabextract has been uploaded. cabextract is Free Software for extracting Microsoft cabinet files, also called .CAB files. See http://www.cabextract.org.uk/ for more details. Since the last cygwin release (1.1), the following changes were made: * "-t" option: Allows you to test tha