Bug#568607: libxml-libxml-perl: memory leak / segmentation fault

[Vincent Lefevre]

Package: libxml-libxml-perl
Version: 1.70.ds-1
Severity: important

I have a script that uses XML::LibXML that takes more and more memory
and ends up with a segmentation fault (before the memory is exhausted,
though).

Note: I have the same memory leak problem under Mac OS X (with
perl 5.8 -- so, perl 5.10 is not the cause) without the segmentation
fault, while I had no such problems in the past.

If this is not a known bug, I'll have do to more tests, but it will be
a bit difficult to produce a simple testcase.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.31-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages libxml-libxml-perl depends on:
ii  libc6                   2.10.2-5         Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libxml-namespacesupport 1.09-3           Perl module for supporting simple 
ii  libxml-sax-perl         0.96+dfsg-2      Perl module for using and building
ii  libxml2                 2.7.6.dfsg-2+b1  GNOME XML library
ii  perl                    5.10.1-9         Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  perl-base [perlapi-5.10 5.10.1-9         minimal Perl system
ii  zlib1g                  1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime

libxml-libxml-perl recommends no packages.

libxml-libxml-perl suggests no packages.

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