[perl #123562] Regexp-matching "hangs" indefinitely on illegal inputusing binmode :utf8 using 100%CPU

On Wed Apr 20 05:04:56 2016, dom wrote:
> This issue is being treated as a security issue by Debian; see
> 
> http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/20/5
> 
> If p5p agrees that this is a correct assessment (it seems so to me)
> then it should be queued for 5.20.4, I presume?
> 
> The Debian bug reporter has rebased the patch for 5.20, but I haven't
> reviewed that:
> 
> https://bugs.debian.org/821848

This issue has been assigned CVE-2015-8853.


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• [perl #123562] Regexp-matching "hangs" indefinitely on illegal inputusing binmode :utf8 using 100%CPU by Dominic Hargreaves via RT
• Re: [perl #123562] Regexp-matching "hangs" indefinitely on illegalinput using binmode :utf8 using 100%CPU by demerphq
• Re: [perl #123562] Regexp-matching "hangs" indefinitely on illegalinput using binmode :utf8 using 100%CPU by Dominic Hargreaves
• Re: [perl #123562] Regexp-matching "hangs" indefinitely on illegalinput using binmode :utf8 using 100%CPU by Karl Williamson
• [perl #123562] Regexp-matching "hangs" indefinitely on illegal inputusing binmode :utf8 using 100%CPU by Dominic Hargreaves via RT