Subject: RE: some help on a security related thing?

RE: some help on a security related thing?

From: Wesley Witt <wesw_at_wittfamily.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2017 00:51:08 +0000

Thanks everyone for the responses. The help is awesome.

I finally got back to this today and got this working. I built my own libssh2 DLL and it works. Lesson here is that DLLs built by others may not be very trustworthy.

-Wes

-----Original Message-----
From: libssh2-devel [mailto:libssh2-devel-bounces_at_cool.haxx.se] On Behalf Of Amirul Islam
Sent: Saturday, February 11, 2017 6:12 PM
To: libssh2 development <libssh2-devel_at_cool.haxx.se>
Subject: Re: some help on a security related thing?

I can try my level best. But my limitation is in experience.

Regards,

Mark

> On 12 Feb 2017, at 03:50, Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> We recently received an email about a libssh2 security problem, but it turns out basically none of us old "maintainers" of this project (me and Alexander Lamaison at least) feel that we have enough time and energy to handle it.
>
> This is ultimately a cry for help that this project needs more hands on deck to function, but to at least handle this immediate short-term crisis I would like you call for volunteers to help us work on this specific problem now. To investigate it and work on a fix, or fixes together with the person who has found the issue.
>
> Failing to deal with it will eventually end up with the issue getting published without any action from our end prior to that, and that would be very unfortunate.
>
> Any takers?
>
> --
>
> / daniel.haxx.se
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