From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 23:14:31 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: "ls" now refuses to generate very long time stamps.
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"ls" now refuses to generate very long time stamps.
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diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
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@@ -1,7 +1,14 @@
-2005-03-11  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>
+2005-03-11  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
 
 	* Version 5.3.1.
 
+	* src/ls.c (TIME_STAMP_LEN_MAXIMUM): New constant.
+	(long_time_expected_width, print_long_format): Use it, to avoid
+	some possible denial-of-service attacks.
+	* NEWS: Document this.
+
+2005-03-11  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>
+
 	Prompt once again for `mv -i A B' when A and B are hard links
 	to the same file.  This fixes a bug introduced by my 2003-04-04
 	(coreutils-5.0.1) change.