On Tue, 29 Nov 2016 20:31:40 -0800, tonyc wrote: > On Wed, 05 Oct 2016 06:04:14 -0700, hv wrote: > > I don't think this is likely to be a security concern. > > I agree, so I've move the ticket to the public queue. > > Treating the # immediately following the $ as a comment in > intuit_method() strikes me as a bug in itself, which I think > the attached fixes. > > I don't think this fixes the base issue though - I'm not sure > how to fix that, perhaps intuit_method() should be restoring > PL_linestart. I spent some time trying to make this crash with my patch in place but couldn't manage it. I've applied my patch (with a test added) as 71776ae4fad9a7659deefe0c2376d45b873ffd6a. Please open a new ticket if you manage to find a similar issue this commit doesn't fix. Closing this ticket. Tony --- via perlbug: queue: perl5 status: open https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=129274