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Re: TortoiseSVN bundles vulnerable copy of Expat - please update to 2.2.3

From: Stefan Küng <tortoisesvn_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2017 08:18:40 +0200

On 05.08.2017 00:04, Sebastian Pipping wrote:
> Hi!
>
>
> Just a quick note that Expat 2.2.3 has been released, including a fix to
> DLL hijacking (CVE-2017-11742 [1]). For more details, please check the
> change log [2].

that problem doesn't apply here:
* we link expat not as a dll but link statically
* TSVN changes the dll search path at start so these kind of hijackings
can't work

but thanks for the info.

Stefan

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