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

[Niko Tyni]

Control: found -1 5.32.1-4
Control: found -1 5.32.1-5
Control: fixed -1 5.34.0-1
Control: tag -1 bullseye patch fixed-upstream

On Tue, Sep 21, 2021 at 04:30:08PM +0200, Yvon Lafaille wrote:
> 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

> 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

Thanks for the report.

This needs to be fixed in unstable/testing first. I'll try to upload
a fix this weekend and look at a stable update after that. There's a
point release for bullseye scheduled for October 9th, we'll see if I
can meet that.

oldstable (buster) with Perl 5.28 is not affected, and it's fixed
in Perl 5.34.0.

The attached upstream patch applies as-is on 5.32.
-- 
Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org
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