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@@ -25,6 +25,13 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- sha1sum, sha224sum, sha384sum, and sha512sum are affected, too. [bug introduced in coreutils-5.1.0] + md5sum -c would accept a NUL-containing checksum string like "abcd\0..." + and would unnecessarily read and compute the checksum of the named file, + and then compare that checksum to the invalid one: guaranteed to fail. + Now, it recognizes that the line is not valid and skips it. + sha1sum, sha224sum, sha384sum, and sha512sum are affected, too. + [bug present in the original version, in coreutils-4.5.1, 1995] + "mkdir -Z x dir" no longer segfaults when diagnosing invalid context "x" mkfifo and mknod would fail similarly. Now they're fixed. |