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On Mon, Jun 03, 2013 at 05:32:13AM -0700, Tony Cook via RT wrote:
> On Tue May 28 03:49:19 2013, tonyc wrote:
> > On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 08:05:32PM +1000, Tony Cook wrote:
> > > so our C<< scan + max < loceol >> condition is true, and the pointer
> > > addition overflows.
> > >
> > > The scan loop:
> > >
> > > while (scan < loceol && UCHARAT(scan) == c) {
> > > scan++;
> > > }
> > >
> > > then terminates early since loceol starts out less than scan.
> >
> > The attached patch fixes this particular instance of the bug, but from
> > inspection there are more (any C<< scan + max >> is suspect in
> > S_regrepeat.)
>
> I've applied this fix, and a few similar changes to S_regrepeat as
> the merge commit 285a3ca139d04d2ee1894c9a9110294ee8bb0309.
>
> I think this is a candidate for maint.
Now cherry-picked into maint-5.18 as
4149c7198d9b78d861df289cce40dd865cab57e7.
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