I've backpatched Thomas's fixes for the potential buffer overruns in
the datetime code to the REL7_2_STABLE branch. The required changes
are pretty minimal, and the code passes the regression tests.

However, I haven't yet seen a test-case that demonstrates the buffer
overrun in 7.2 code (I originally found the problem when playing with
datetime on 7.3-dev with integer datetimes) -- I've tested it a little
bit and it seems to work, but this patch probably requires pretty
widespread testing.

Cheers,

Neil

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Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com> || PGP Key ID: DB3C29FC
20 Aug 2002 18:24:35 -0400
Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>
backpatch of datetime fixes
Neil Conway wrote:
> 
> I've backpatched Thomas's fixes for the potential buffer overruns in
> the datetime code to the REL7_2_STABLE branch. The required changes
> are pretty minimal, and the code passes the regression tests.
> 
> However, I haven't yet seen a test-case that demonstrates the buffer
> overrun in 7.2 code (I originally found the problem when playing with
> datetime on 7.3-dev with integer datetimes)

I've had trouble provoking an error also, but the circumstances should
be related to having a long date/time input, especially if it has more
fields than one would expect in a valid date/time string.

                     - Thomas

Tue, 20 Aug 2002 18:18:46 -0700
Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@fourpalms.org>
Re: backpatch of datetime fixes