[SECURITY] please withdraw screen 4.5.0 from the Cygwin archives

Jon Turney jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk
Wed Jan 25 14:46:00 GMT 2017


On 25/01/2017 13:21, Andrew Schulman wrote:
> Can someone please remove screen 4.5.0-1 from the archive?
>
> screen 4.5.0 has at least one serious security problem [1], and maybe some other
> bugs too. I doubt Cygwin is affected, since screen doesn't rely on root
> privileges there. But 4.5.0 is only a minor update and a fix isn't going to be
> available until next month, so I think I want to withdraw this release.
>
> Thanks,
> Andrew
>
> [1] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/screen-devel/2017-01/msg00025.html

For future reference, you can do this yourself, see [1]

[1] https://cygwin.com/package-upload.html#deleting



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