327311 - Crash if bad data input in date fields

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 278236

(Calendar :: Internal Components, defect)

Description

[Eric Iverson]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060208 Mozilla Sunbird/0.3a1+

When events and tasks are input, if bad data is put in for the date, Mozilla crashes and/or changes the date to something completely different.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1 -- Create a task or event
2 -- Enter a date with decimals, such as 2.1/4.2/2007.9

Actual Results:  
Crash and/or date changed to something completely different.

Expected Results:  
Tell the user the date is malformed and have them re-input.

Comment 1

[Stefan Sitter [:ssitter]]

From a quick test: If you enter something invalid the datepicker tries to interprete these as valid values resulting in changed dates. If you end up with a date after 2037 or before 1970 it crashes. For this crash we already have bugs filed (see Bug 324293, Bug 278236).

Comment 2

[Joey Minta]

(In reply to comment #1)
> From a quick test: If you enter something invalid the datepicker tries to
> interprete these as valid values resulting in changed dates. If you end up with
> a date after 2037 or before 1970 it crashes. For this crash we already have
> bugs filed (see Bug 324293, Bug 278236).
> 
I agree that this is the correct analysis, resolving as a duplicate.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 278236 ***

Comment 3

[Reed Loden [:reed]]

The bugspam monkeys have struck again. They are currently chewing on default assignees for Calendar. Be afraid for your sanity!