[tor-bugs] #9084 [Tor bundles/installation]: TBB 3.0a1 crashes on startup on WinXP (missing entry points for _vsnprintf_s in msvcrt.dll)

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#9084: TBB 3.0a1 crashes on startup on WinXP (missing entry points for
_vsnprintf_s in msvcrt.dll)
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 Reporter:  dope457                              |          Owner:  erinn           
     Type:  defect                               |         Status:  new             
 Priority:  major                                |      Milestone:  Tor: unspecified
Component:  Tor bundles/installation             |        Version:  Tor: unspecified
 Keywords:  tbb-3.0, tbb-crash, MikePerry201307  |         Parent:                  
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Comment(by gk):

 Replying to [comment:12 mikeperry]:
 > Ok, the exe from https://www.microsoft.com/en-
 us/download/details.aspx?id=5555 has sha256sum
 8162b2d665ca52884507ede19549e99939ce4ea4a638c537fa653539819138c8 from a
 few Tor exits.

 I can confirm this with Tor-independent means. And the .exe is signed by
 Microsoft which is much better than nothing.

 > I ran it in wine, and it installed this:
 > 111ba3befa7b5fb1e736e34aa7130ab148122c16177bcbc686c7f87b6b4ea694
 .wine/drive_c/windows/winsxs/x86_microsoft.vc90.crt_1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b_9.0.30729.4148_none_deadbeef/msvcr90.dll
 >
 > Is that what we want?

 No, actually not. That one is a runtime lib for VS 2008. Weird, that it is
 included into the 2010 package at all. I'd like to have the *100.dlls.
 That said, we could grab them from Mozilla as they are shipped with
 Firefox. Maybe Mozilla has found a good way to verify that the dlls are
 untampered. Anyway, I failed badly trying to get into contact with the
 responsible people at Microsoft (surprise!).

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