Bug#693320: libnet-server-perl: Uninitialized value in pattern match spam

[gregor herrmann]

On Thu, 15 Nov 2012 15:07:14 +0100, Patrick Matthäi wrote:

> Using munin-node on Wheezy the /var/log/munin-node.log is spammed down with
> this entries:
> 
> 	Use of uninitialized value in pattern match (m//) at /usr/share/perl5/Net/Server.pm line 600.

Right, I see the same here ...
 
> This is because of some missing variable checking and wrong order of checking for them.
> Please also add this for Wheezy.

Ack.

There's also an upstream bug report:
https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=78828
with a slightly different patch (which also addresses the 'deny'
case) but doesn't check on $peeraddr ...

Cheers,
gregor

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