Security hole in gnu-win32-gcc

Daniel Kroening kroening@hit.handshake.de
Wed Sep 10 10:28:00 GMT 1997


Hello,

I discovered a security hole in cygnus gnu-win32 gcc: Obviously,
allocated ram is not initialised. The generated binaries thus contain
parts of the main memory of the machine compiling it. In binaries, where
uninitialied arrays are, I discovered parts of web pages and other data
of the memory. It might sound harmless, but confident documents or even
pgp secret keys might get disclosed.

Daniel Krvning
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