Bug#698320: perl: wraparound when casting unsigned size_t to signed ssize_t

[Dominic Hargreaves]

Package: perl
Severity: important
Version: 5.14.2-16
Tags: upstream confirmed fixed-upstream patch

The issue originally reported in
<http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=689314#63> was
found by the perl5 security team not to be a security bug.

Patch available (only in blead at the moment) at

http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commit/94e529cc4d56863d7272c254a29eda2b002a4335

but applies to maint-5.14.

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