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wow (Score:1)

by da (1525)

that's quite the crash.

Wait, does that mean there's a DoS attack built into iCal, if you import somebody's badly formatted .ics file? (I say this with minimal knowlege, not having used ical much).

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- Re:wow (Score:2)
  
  by Matts (1087)
  
  Probably.
  - Re:wow (Score:2)
    
    by pudge (1)
    
    Maybe, I don't know. I did some more testing on this (trying to put a little-endian date into my big-endian iCal), and I observed the same behavior, except it was a bit inconsistent in how it failed.
    
    However, I was wrong about it being tens of thousands of years. It was probably more like tens of billions. With a b. What I was misremembering is that the new 64-bit time can go to about 500 billion years, but the OS is at present designed to go out to only 30,000.
groan (Score:1)

by fishbot (5470)

Sounds like you fixed the bug, so at least the story has a happy endian.