diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index c5e0c6892e0..e8a72fe0a17 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -827,6 +827,9 @@ Release 0.23.5 - UNRELEASED
     HADOOP-8811. Compile hadoop native library in FreeBSD (Radim Kolar via
     bobby)
 
+    HADOOP-8962. RawLocalFileSystem.listStatus fails when a child filename
+    contains a colon (jlowe via bobby)
+
 Release 0.23.4 - UNRELEASED
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/RawLocalFileSystem.java b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/RawLocalFileSystem.java
index 9727f14ce24..e4fbe31ce28 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/RawLocalFileSystem.java
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/RawLocalFileSystem.java
@@ -344,7 +344,7 @@ public class RawLocalFileSystem extends FileSystem {
         new RawLocalFileStatus(localf, getDefaultBlockSize(f), this) };
     }
 
-    String[] names = localf.list();
+    File[] names = localf.listFiles();
     if (names == null) {
       return null;
     }
@@ -352,7 +352,7 @@ public class RawLocalFileSystem extends FileSystem {
     int j = 0;
     for (int i = 0; i < names.length; i++) {
       try {
-        results[j] = getFileStatus(new Path(f, names[i]));
+        results[j] = getFileStatus(new Path(names[i].getAbsolutePath()));
         j++;
       } catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
         // ignore the files not found since the dir list may have have changed
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/TestLocalFileSystem.java b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/TestLocalFileSystem.java
index e411314b85e..eb3d33df377 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/TestLocalFileSystem.java
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/TestLocalFileSystem.java
@@ -249,6 +249,7 @@ public class TestLocalFileSystem {
     assertEquals(1, fileSchemeCount);
   }
 
+  @Test
   public void testHasFileDescriptor() throws IOException {
     Configuration conf = new Configuration();
     LocalFileSystem fs = FileSystem.getLocal(conf);
@@ -258,4 +259,17 @@ public class TestLocalFileSystem {
         new RawLocalFileSystem().new LocalFSFileInputStream(path), 1024);
     assertNotNull(bis.getFileDescriptor());
   }
+
+  @Test
+  public void testListStatusWithColons() throws IOException {
+    Configuration conf = new Configuration();
+    LocalFileSystem fs = FileSystem.getLocal(conf);
+    File colonFile = new File(TEST_ROOT_DIR, "foo:bar");
+    colonFile.mkdirs();
+    colonFile.createNewFile();
+    FileStatus[] stats = fs.listStatus(new Path(TEST_ROOT_DIR));
+    assertEquals("Unexpected number of stats", 1, stats.length);
+    assertEquals("Bad path from stat", colonFile.getAbsolutePath(),
+        stats[0].getPath().toUri().getPath());
+  }
 }