[perl #68348] Storable null pointer deref on truncated data

On Sun, 09 Aug 2009 06:56:32 -0700, dgl wrote:
> 
> When deserialising truncated storable data where the truncation is
> within a
> coderef there seems to be a null pointer dereference:
> 
> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> retrieve_code (my_perl=0x754010, cxt=0x8c3750, cname=0x0) at
> Storable.xs:5438
> 5438            sv_catpv(sub, SvPV_nolen(text)); /* XXX no sv_catsv!
> */
> 
> text is 0x0.

The patch attached to https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=130098 fixes this segfault.

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• [perl #68348] Storable null pointer deref on truncated data by John D. Lightsey via RT