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Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 14:51:33 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: autossh-1.2g-5
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On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 08:45:09PM +0100, Schulman DOT Andrew AT epamail DOT epa DOT gov wrote:
>A new version of the autossh package is available in the Cygwin 
>distribution.
>
>Changes in version 1.2g-5:
>* Fix heap corruption and segfaults caused by free()ing static memory.

Just to state it really clearly:  it wasn't freeing static memory.  It
was clearing memory that was malloced by the cygwin DLL and which the
cygwin DLL expected to manage.

cgf

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