Bug#689314: perl: segfaults when echoing a very long string

[Thorsten Glaser]

Package: perl
Version: 5.14.2-13
Severity: normal

# perl -le 'print "v"x(2**31+1) ."=1"'                                               
Segmentation fault 

Trying to reproduce the error from
http://git.kernel.org/?p=libs/klibc/klibc.git;a=commitdiff;h=127b17bb38dbfc95386a52b2159f059221d33497
on Debian wheezy/amd64.

Interestingly enough, Debian lenny/amd64 works just fine.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/mksh-static

Versions of packages perl depends on:
ii  libbz2-1.0    1.0.6-4
ii  libc6         2.13-35
ii  libdb5.1      5.1.29-5
ii  libgdbm3      1.8.3-11
ii  perl-base     5.14.2-13
ii  perl-modules  5.14.2-13
ii  zlib1g        1:1.2.7.dfsg-13

Versions of packages perl recommends:
ii  netbase  5.0

Versions of packages perl suggests:
pn  libterm-readline-gnu-perl | libterm-readline-perl-perl  <none>
ii  make                                                    3.81-8.2
pn  perl-doc                                                <none>

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