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Comment by abainbridge | Hacker News Reader

I wonder how the checked in the fix to the source control system?

Probably:

    git rm -r .
    git add EQNEDT32.EXE
    git commit -m "Fixed CVE-2017-11882"
    git push

(Provided someone automatically updated the code repository to git or some other modern tool in the past 17 years.)

'FCIB', apparently: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20171114-00/?p=...

> F-C-I-B or as a sort-of acronym eff-sib […] stands for "foreign checked-in binary" […] The term FCIB didn't originally mean "foreign checked-in binary". According to legend […] "Not another f—ing checked-in binary!"

I've done this in the past by checking in both a binary as well as a diff to the previous version. It's sometimes helpful to have both if your SCM doesn't handle binary diffs well.

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