[perl #129000] heap-buffer-overflow Perl_utf8_hop (utf8.c:1132)

On Mon Aug 22 18:19:40 2016, tonyc wrote:
> As this requires feeding code to the perl parser I don't think it's
> security
> issue (if you can feed code you can attack much more directly.)
> 
> It's still a bug, I suspect we're calling functions that are intended
> to
> work on valid UTF-8 on strings with known invalid UTF-8.

Since this isn't a security issue, I've moved it to the public queue.

I'm working on a fix.

Tony

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• [perl #129000] heap-buffer-overflow Perl_utf8_hop (utf8.c:1132) by Tony Cook via RT
• [perl #129000] heap-buffer-overflow Perl_utf8_hop (utf8.c:1132) by Tony Cook via RT