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Date:      Fri, 28 Apr 2017 23:12:43 +0000
From:      bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org
To:        perl@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   [Bug 218946] lang/perl5.24 - remote DoS via CPU exhaustion by exercising glob expansion
Message-ID:  <bug-218946-14331@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/>

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            Bug ID: 218946
           Summary: lang/perl5.24 - remote DoS via CPU exhaustion by
                    exercising glob expansion
           Product: Ports & Packages
           Version: Latest
          Hardware: Any
                OS: Any
            Status: New
          Severity: Affects Only Me
          Priority: ---
         Component: Individual Port(s)
          Assignee: perl@FreeBSD.org
          Reporter: sevan@freebsd.org
             Flags: maintainer-feedback?(perl@FreeBSD.org)
          Assignee: perl@FreeBSD.org

A blog post by Russ Cox, titled "Glob Matching Can Be Simple And Fast Too"
highlighted the issue.
https://research.swtch.com/glob

Patches landed in Perl repo to address the issue
https://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commit/33252c318625f3c6c89b816ee8848194=
0e3e6f95

I don't believe a CVE has been assigned yet but the range of affected softw=
are
may be quite wide, not sure how that fits in with vuxml.

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