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@@ -42,6 +42,9 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
"paste -d'\' file" no longer overruns memory (heap since coreutils-5.1.2,
stack before then) [bug present in the original version, in 1992]
+ "pr -e" with a mix of backspaces and TABs no longer corrupts the heap
+ [bug present in the original version, in 1992]
+
"ptx -F'\' long-file-name" would overrun a malloc'd buffer and corrupt
the heap. That was triggered by a lone backslash (or odd number of them)
at the end of the option argument to --flag-truncation=STRING (-F),