Updated: setup (2.930)

Jon Turney jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk
Wed Feb 7 19:57:17 GMT 2024


A new version of Setup (2.930) has been uploaded to:

  https://cygwin.com/setup-x86_64.exe  (64 bit version)
  https://cygwin.com/setup-x86.exe     (32 bit version)

Changes compared to 2.929:

- Add some hardening against "DLL hijacking" attacks (Thanks to Corinna 
Vinschen for doing all the thinking involved)

Briefly, these attacks involve tricking you into downloading a malicious 
DLL with the same name as a Windows system DLL into the same directory 
you download and then run setup from.


Replies to this message are not the place for setup feature requests.

For instructions on obtaining and building the source code for setup, 
see https://sourceware.org/cygwin-apps/setup.html

Please send bug reports, as usual, to the public mailing list cygwin AT 
cygwin DOT com.


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