On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 09:05:12AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > Package: libc6 > Version: 2.2.5-14.3 > Severity: normal > > strftime() causes a segmentation fault if some of the values in the tm > argument are outside of its expected range. Here is a sample program:
Lots of things segfault on unexpected data. Why should this be any different? SUSv2 specifies the expected ranges for struct tm: int tm_sec seconds [0,61] int tm_min minutes [0,59] int tm_hour hour [0,23] int tm_mday day of month [1,31] int tm_mon month of year [0,11] int tm_year years since 1900 int tm_wday day of week [0,6] (Sunday = 0) int tm_yday day of year [0,365] int tm_isdst daylight savings flag Anything else is obviously undefined. Since SUSv2 defines the range on the input parameters, it should not be expected that that all functions using struct tm should have to verify all members of struct tm fit into the range. That is the job of the caller. Unless you can provide statements to the contrary, I'll close this bug. -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://www.linux1394.org/ Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/ Deqo - http://www.deqo.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
