Package: perl Version: 5.24.1-1 Severity: important Tags: upstream Forwarded: https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=130766
As reported in [perl #130766], a regression in Perl 5.24 made some combinations of Encode::encode and substr leak memory. For instance, running perl -e 'use Encode; while (1) { encode("ascii", substr("test",1)); }' makes the perl process grow without bounds. We should probably fix this for stretch. -- Niko Tyni nt...@debian.org