oss-security - CVE Request: perl: regex causes assertion fail

Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 09:30:24 +0100
From: Ludwig Nussel <ludwig.nussel@...e.de>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: CVE  Request: perl: regex causes assertion fail

Hi,

Certain regular expressions cause perl to abort():
http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=76538

That's an issue e.g. for spamassassin:
https://listi.jpberlin.de/pipermail/postfixbuch-users/2011-February/055885.html

cu
Ludwig

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