[perl #112478] use asking for very large module version number raises panic: snprintf buffer overflow

On Mon Apr 16 18:22:11 2012, sprout wrote:
> Commit ad63d80fcd28c3 seems to have caused the first regression.  It
> apparently stops any error from being reported at all.

And commit c8a14fb6c15f introduced the panic.

Since this is a regression from 5.8 (and I was really hoping to get rid
of all of those!), and since the fix is simple (I’ll probably have it
done tonight), can this be fixed for 5.16?

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Father Chrysostomos


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