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@@ -22,6 +22,13 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
   Specifically timeout now doesn't exit with an error message
   if its parent ignores CHLD signals. [bug introduced in coreutils-7.6]
 
+  a user running "make distcheck" in the coreutils source directory,
+  with TMPDIR unset or set to the name of a world-writable directory,
+  and with a malicious user on the same system
+  was vulnerable to arbitrary code execution
+  [bug introduced in coreutils-7.0]
+
+
 * Noteworthy changes in release 8.1 (2009-11-18) [stable]
 
 ** Bug fixes