Bug#994834: perl: Memory leak in Perl version 5.32 not fixed in Debian 11.0

[Yvon Lafaille]

Subject: perl: Memory leak in Perl version 5.32 not fixed in Debian 11.0
Package: perl
Version: 5.32.1-4+deb11u1
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

The current perl version in Debian 11.0 suffer of memory leak in RegEx
The details of the bug and the script to reproduce can be found here.
https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/18604
This bug is important especially for services written in perl with regex
who conduct to memory outage.
Could you fix this bug in the current stable Debian 11 distribution.
Have a good day.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 11.0
   APT prefers stable-security
   APT policy: (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-8-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE 
not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages perl depends on:
ii  dpkg               1.20.9
ii  libperl5.32        5.32.1-4+deb11u1
ii  perl-base          5.32.1-4+deb11u1
ii  perl-modules-5.32  5.32.1-4+deb11u1

Versions of packages perl recommends:
ii  netbase  6.3

Versions of packages perl suggests:
pn  libtap-harness-archive-perl  <none>
ii  libterm-readline-gnu-perl    1.37-1
ii  libterm-readline-perl-perl   1.0303-2.1
ii  make                         4.3-4.1
ii  perl-doc                     5.32.1-4+deb11u1

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