From a4faa6a0a3ae93c01d036d830ae7a21b74913baf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pádraig Brady Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 23:43:34 +0000 Subject: 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 --- tests/misc/date.pl | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) (limited to 'tests/misc/date.pl') diff --git a/tests/misc/date.pl b/tests/misc/date.pl index 57c6c7282..40be4cab5 100755 --- a/tests/misc/date.pl +++ b/tests/misc/date.pl @@ -287,6 +287,13 @@ my @Tests = {ERR => "date: invalid date '\\260'\n"}, {EXIT => 1}, ], + + # From coreutils-5.3.0 to 8.22 inclusive + # this would either infinite loop or crash + ['invalid-TZ-crash', "-d 'TZ=\"\"\"'", + {ERR => "date: invalid date 'TZ=\"\"\"'\n"}, + {EXIT => 1}, + ], ); # Repeat the cross-dst test, using Jan 1, 2005 and every interval from 1..364. -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2