Bug#776046: perl: Segfault in S_regmatch from bad backreference

[Niko Tyni]

Package: perl
Version: 5.14.2-21
Severity: important
Tags: wheezy security
Forwarded: https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=119505
Control: fixed -1 5.20.0-1

perl -e '/\7777777777/' 
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

This was fixed upstream in 5.19.5 with
 http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commitdiff/0c2990d652e985784f095bba4bc356481a66aa06

so it doesn't affect jessie or sid.

carnil from the security team says this should be probably be fixed in
a point release but it's not worth a DSA.
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Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org