Hi, I found a bug in win32ole when it is used to extract information from an active directory server. Our server contains a property like: dSCorePropagationData => '16010108151056.0Z' This gets converted into the string: 2006/04/07 21:04:15,1601/01/08 -15:-10:-55 by date2time_str() in win32ole.c. However because of the negative numbers it overflows the 20 character buffer that sprintf is using. So it looks like there are two issues: * The use of sprint here is unsafe. * The conversion of the value returned by AD to a ruby string value is incorrect (though perhaps the input date is degenerate and couldn't be converted correctly anyway). Regards, Chris Waters CTO, PhD Network Chemistry, Inc Email: chris.waters / networkchemistry.com Phone: (650) 858-3125 www.networkchemistry.com www.projectwishbone.com