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** Changed in: sikuli
       Status: New => Fix Committed

** Changed in: sikuli
     Assignee: (unassigned) => RaiMan (raimund-hocke)

** Changed in: sikuli
    Milestone: None => x1.0

** Summary changed:

- Use of ZeroMemory in Java_org_sikuli_script_Win32Util_openApp leads to intermittent problems
+ X-1.0rc3: Windows:  Java_org_sikuli_script_Win32Util_openApp should use SecureZeroMemory

** Tags removed: openapp
** Tags added: windows-native

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Title:
  X-1.0rc3: Windows:  Java_org_sikuli_script_Win32Util_openApp should
  use SecureZeroMemory

Status in Sikuli:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  In function Java_org_sikuli_script_Win32Util_openApp in file sikuli-
  script\src\main\native\Win32Util.cc, the usage of ZeroMemory  in
  conjunction with using compiler optimization, can lead to unwanted
  effects.

  For example, I experienced that the function intermittently opened an
  app in a minimized state. This started to happen on Windows 8, but not
  on other platforms.

  Now, the reason for that, can be that the struct STARTUPINFO is
  actually not all zeros. Please see article on:
  https://www.securecoding.cert.org/confluence/display/cplusplus/MSC06-CPP.+Be+aware+of+compiler+optimization+when+dealing+with+sensitive+data

  Instead of using ZeroMemory, SecureZeroMemory should be used.

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