From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 00:53:23 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: md5sum and sha1sum overflow detection.
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md5sum and sha1sum overflow detection.
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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index f46048dee4..3b4e4729f9 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -36,6 +36,10 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
     recursively-encountered symbolic link cannot be updated because
     the file system does not support it.
 
+  md5sum and sha1sum now report an error when given so many input
+  lines that their line counter overflows, instead of silently
+  reporting incorrect results.
+
   rm no longer requires read access to the current directory.
 
   tail -f no longer mishandles pipes and fifos.  With no operands,