Sun Sep 9 01:46:40 2001 GMT

From: Rķkharšur Egilsson (Rikhardur.EGILSSONat_private)
Date: Wed Aug 29 2001 - 02:03:30 PDT

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    Has anybody done any research in what production systems (web, mail-
    servers, OSes etc) might have a problem at :
    
    perl -e 'print localtime(1000000000) . "\n";'
    
    The only thing I have found, so far, is this (old) version of KMail :
    http://dot.kde.org/985599243/
    
    The whole issue, and the absense of any discussion, looks like either,
    
    	(1) A disaster just waiting to happen or
    
    	(2) A non-problem.
    
    Personally my wote is for (2).
    
    For vulnerable systems, there might be a problem if the system accepts
    dates from users and a user enters a date after September 9th 2001.
    (buffer overflow ?)
    
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     Rķkharšur Egilsson - Networking/Security EXD/ITN/CCO
     OECD/OCDE - Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
    



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