From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 23:13:58 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: ls now refuses to generate time stamps containing more than 1000 bytes.
X-Git-Tag: CPPI-1_12~1315
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9d55554bf1ad78c449e0e769658f8ed41382691d;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

ls now refuses to generate time stamps containing more than 1000 bytes.
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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 216470c8a7..78cf4d13b7 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -27,6 +27,9 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
   expr now detects integer overflow when evaluating large integers,
   rather than silently wrapping around.
 
+  ls now refuses to generate time stamps containing more than 1000 bytes, to
+  foil remote denial-of-service attacks (e.g., --time-style='+%1000000000Y').
+
   test now detects integer overflow when evaluating large integers,
   rather than silently wrapping around.