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authorDavid Mitchell <davem@iabyn.com>2013-03-07 14:06:11 +0000
committerDavid Mitchell <davem@iabyn.com>2013-03-07 15:08:29 +0000
commitd8edf93c10267990cb6471d9626df21a867a9867 (patch)
tree1de86ef108ea20a1879b048666134f052b881910
parentcabaa53059292b516f879f224fd9dcc60117cc8f (diff)
downloadperl-d8edf93c10267990cb6471d9626df21a867a9867.tar.gz
update perldelta with Encode fix
-rw-r--r--pod/perldelta.pod13
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod
index 4f55fde2ef..2e2eca3b59 100644
--- a/pod/perldelta.pod
+++ b/pod/perldelta.pod
@@ -19,9 +19,9 @@ No changes since 5.14.0.
=head1 Security
-This release contains one major and a number of minor security fixes.
-The latter are included mainly to allow the test suite to pass cleanly
-with the clang compiler's address sanitizer facility.
+This release contains one major, and medium, and a number of minor
+security fixes. The latter are included mainly to allow the test suite to
+pass cleanly with the clang compiler's address sanitizer facility.
=head2 CVE-2013-1667: memory exhaustion with arbitrary hash keys
@@ -31,6 +31,11 @@ and CPU, and thus possibly to achieve a Denial-of-Service.
This problem has been fixed.
+=head2 memory leak in Encode
+
+The UTF-8 encoding implementation in Encode.xs had a memory leak which has been
+fixed.
+
=head2 [perl #111594] Socket::unpack_sockaddr_un heap-buffer-overflow
A read buffer overflow could occur when copying C<sockaddr> buffers.
@@ -103,6 +108,8 @@ L</Security> (version numbers have not changed):
=back
+L<Encode> has been upgraded from version 2.42_01 to version 2.42_02.
+
L<Module::CoreList> has been updated to version 2.49_05 to add data for
this release.