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| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 11 |
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@@ -199,6 +199,17 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- pwd and "readlink -e ." no longer fail unnecessarily when a parent directory is unreadable. + rm (without -f) could prompt when it shouldn't, or fail to prompt + when it should, when operating on a full name longer than 511 bytes + and getting an ENOMEM error while trying to form the long name. + + rm could mistakenly traverse into the wrong directory under unusual + conditions: when a full name longer than 511 bytes specifies a search-only + directory, and when forming that name fails with ENOMEM, rm would attempt + to open a truncated-to-511-byte name with the first five bytes replaced + with "[...]". If such a directory were to actually exist, rm would attempt + to remove it. + "rm -rf /etc/passwd" (run by non-root) now prints a diagnostic. Before it would print nothing. |