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| author | Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com> | 2014-02-27 23:43:34 +0000 |
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| committer | Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com> | 2014-02-27 23:56:28 +0000 |
| commit | a4faa6a0a3ae93c01d036d830ae7a21b74913baf (patch) | |
| tree | 0c9f0aa37f422da9e7c8015eb588bb1f72bced16 /NEWS | |
| parent | 7bbfd1735574be80971b597b34f779fe6938a595 (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-a4faa6a0a3ae93c01d036d830ae7a21b74913baf.tar.xz | |
date: fix crash or infinite loop when parsing a malformed TZ=""
* NEWS: Mention the fix.
* gnulib: Update to incorporate the fix.
This is the only change in this gnulib update.
* tests/misc/date.pl: Add a test for this case.
Fixes http://bugs.gnu.org/16872
Diffstat (limited to 'NEWS')
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
@@ -14,6 +14,9 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- when reading the SELinux context for a file. [bug introduced in coreutils-8.22] + date could crash or go into an infinite loop when parsing a malformed TZ="". + [bug introduced with the --date='TZ="" ..' parsing feature in coreutils-5.3.0] + head --lines=-0, when the input does not contain a trailing '\n', now copies all input to stdout. Previously nothing was output in this case. [bug introduced with the --lines=-N feature in coreutils-5.0.1] |