#995738 perl: leak fixes for buster (perl 5.28.1)

Package:
perl
Source:
perl
Description:
Larry Wall's Practical Extraction and Report Language
Submitter:
Eric Wong
Date:
2021-10-08 23:24:03 UTC
Severity:
normal
Tags:
#995738#5
Date:
2021-10-04 20:47:02 UTC
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There are at least two regexp leaks affecting buster/oldstable
that affect codebases I'm maintaining.

They're fixed upstream and in current stable/testing/unstable;
but I expect there to be many users still using buster/5.28.1
for the forseeable future due to the pandemic delaying upgrades.

Memory leak in regular expressions:
https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/17218

Matching Unicode regexp against ASCII string leaks
https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/17140
https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=134390

Attached are patches from perl.git
#995738#10
Date:
2021-10-08 23:12:02 UTC
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Please consider providing Encode 3.15, thanks.