On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 11:49:02PM +0300, Alexandros Kosiaris wrote: > Package: perl > Version: 5.20.2-3+deb8u4 > Severity: normal > Tags: upstream patch > > Dear Maintainer, > > There is a bug in Perl 5.8.9 (at least) that causes regular > expressions an malformed UTF8 inputs to go into a forever loop and > consume 100% CPU. Upstream's tracker url is > https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=123562. Patch is at > http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commitdiff/22b433eff9a1ffa2454e18405a56650f07b385b5 > and attached is a version rebased for Debian Jessie. I have not > confirmed it, but based on the versions numbers I believe Stretch and Sid are > also affected.
Thanks for the report. This was fixed in perl 5.22.1, which is now in sid and stretch. We might be able to fix this in stable; we'll see how that goes. Cheers, Dominic.
