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bug #22017: zic can generate files which crash the linux kernel

Submitter:  None
Submitted:  Mon 14 Jan 2008 09:18:54 AM UTC
   
 
Category:  None Severity:  3 - Normal
Item Group:  None Status:  Invalid
Privacy:  Public Assigned to:  None
Open/Closed:  Closed

Mon 14 Jan 2008 09:46:43 AM UTC, comment #1: 

zic is not part of coreutils, but does belong to the GNU C library (glibc). See http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/bugs.html for bug report instructions.

Steven Schubiger <schubiger>
Mon 14 Jan 2008 09:18:54 AM UTC, original submission:  

Hi there,

Don't know if you'll want to fix, but we just had an issue where zic is generating files which cause a kernel panic in tzfile.c on Linux. Apparently the -01:00 is the offending time offset.

cheers,
 Jamie (jamie.riden@gmail.com)

We compiled the following timezone file with zic and put the result in /etc/localtime. This makes tzfile.c fail with assertion that numtypes==1.

# /etc/timezone (auto-generated)

# Daylight savings time rules
#    Name       YrStart   YrEnd   Type   Month,Day,At,Offset      Letter
Rule DAYLIGHT   2000      max     -      Mar lastSun 02:00 01:00   -
Rule DAYLIGHT   2000      max     -      Oct lastSun 03:00 -01:00   -

# Timezone description
#    NAME        Offset    Rule       Name(/DaylightName)
Zone localtime   00:00     DAYLIGHT   GMT/BST

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