Advisories ยป MGAA-2020-0027

Updated perl packages fix several bugs

Publication date: 22 Jan 2020
Modification date: 22 Jan 2020
Type: bugfix
Affected Mageia releases : 7

Description

This update fixes detecting various bugs which should improve the stability
of perl written programs:
- Avoid panic when last value of search-and-replace is tainted and UTF-8
  (RT#134409)
- Fix overloading for binary and octal floats (RT#125557)
- Fix handling undefined array members in Dumpvalue (RT#134441)
- Fix taint mode documentation regarding @INC
- Fix handling a layer argument in Tie::StdHandle::BINMODE() (RT#132475)
- Fix an unintended upgrade to UTF-8 in the middle of a transliteration
- Fix a race in File::stat() tests (GH#17234)
- Fix GCC 10 version detection (GH#17295)
- Fix a memory leak when compiling a regular expression with a non-word
  class (GH#17218)
- Fix a memory leak when matching a UTF-8 regular expression (RT#134390)
- Fix a detection for futimes (RT#134432)
- Fix propagating non-string variables in an exception value (RT#134291)
- Include trailing zero in scalars holding trie data (RT#134207)
- Fix a use after free in /(?{...})/ (RT#134208)
- Fix a use after free in debugging output of a collation
- Fix file mode of a perl-example.stp example
- Fix a NULL pointer dereference in PerlIOVia_pushed()
- Fix a crash when setting $@ on unwinding a call stack (RT#134266)
- Fix a documentation about a future API change
- Do not panic when evaluating non-ASCII bare words (RT#134061)
- Fix a crash in SIGALARM handler when waiting on a child process to be
  closed (RT#122112)
- Fix a crash with a negative precision in sprintf function (RT#134008)
- Prevent from wrapping a width in a numeric format string (RT#133913)
- Fix subroutine protypes to track reference aliases (RT#134072)
- Improve retrieving a scalar value of a variable modified in a signal
  handler (RT#134035)
- Fix changing packet destination sent from a UDP IO::Socket object
  (RT#133936)
- Fix a stack underflow in readline() if passed an empty array as an
  argument (#RT133989)
- Fix %%{^CAPTURE_ALL} to be an alias for %%- variable (RT#131867)
- Fix %%{^CAPTURE} value when used after @{^CAPTURE} (RT#134193)
- Fix a test for a crash in SIGALARM handler when waiting on a child
  process to be closed (RT#122112)
- Fix a crash on an uninitialized warning when processing a multideref
  node (RT#134275)
- Preserve append mode when opening anonymous files (RT#134221)

References

SRPMS

7/core