Rev 3642: NEWS entry for fixing bug #186014 in http://bzr.arbash-meinel.com/branches/bzr/1.7-dev/dirstate_segv_259350

[John Arbash Meinel]

At http://bzr.arbash-meinel.com/branches/bzr/1.7-dev/dirstate_segv_259350

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revno: 3642
revision-id: john at arbash-meinel.com-20080819155235-2ozozhpuyzdfu23c
parent: john at arbash-meinel.com-20080819154150-78ta5hv2oorz0mpl
committer: John Arbash Meinel <john at arbash-meinel.com>
branch nick: dirstate_segv_259350
timestamp: Tue 2008-08-19 10:52:35 -0500
message:
  NEWS entry for fixing bug #186014
modified:
  NEWS                           NEWS-20050323055033-4e00b5db738777ff
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       the show_pending flag is now authoritative for showing pending
       merges, as it was originally. (Robert Collins, #225204)
 
+    * Trailing text in the dirstate file could cause the C dirstate parser
+      to try to allocate an invalid amount of memory. We now properly
+      check and test for parsing a dirstate with invalid trailing data.
+      (John Arbash Meinel, #186014)
+
     * ``WorkingTree4`` trees will now correctly report missing-and-new
       paths in the output of ``iter_changes``. (Robert Collins)