Package: libmath-bigint-gmp-perl Version: 1.18-2 Severity: important It appears that Math::BigInt::GMP has problems with object accessibility across threads. When I was testing some code I wrote in Perl which uses Math::BigInt::GMP (a user authentication module implementation for AFP written in Perl), I found that a Math::BigInt::GMP object created in the main process causes a segmentation fault in the Perl interpreter after threads are used - even if the object is not being accessed within a child thread, but in the main thread. If the object is created within the subroutine instead, however, it works as expected. I'm not sure if this is a thread safety issue in the XS wrapper code, or in libgmp itself (it claims to be threadsafe, but I don't know how well this has really been tested). This is not a PowerPC specific issue, I've seen the exact same issue on x86 machines as well.
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