Secure testing team - Aug 2008 - Bug#495659: base: prevent unix 2038 oveflow

Package: base
Severity: critical
Tags: security
Justification: breaks the whole system

it should be made impossible to reach the unix overflow upcoming in
2038. There should be a facility to block entering such a date and
ignoring ntp servers or other items that may influence he system clock
that would cause the date to pass 2038. This should be altered when
there is a patch / solution to the problem on a given system. 

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, ''testing'')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash