Bug 145215 - garbage after split()
Summary: garbage after split()
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
Classification: Red Hat
Component: perl
Version: 3.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jason Vas Dias
QA Contact: David Lawrence
URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt3/index.html?q=2...
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks: 168424
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2005-01-15 14:32 UTC by Need Real Name
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:07 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

Fixed In Version: RHSA-2005-881
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2005-12-20 14:58:05 UTC
Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:

Attachments (Terms of Use)


Links
System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2005:881 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: perl security update 2005-12-20 05:00:00 UTC

Description Need Real Name 2005-01-15 14:32:07 UTC 
From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; ja-JP; rv:1.7.5)
Gecko/20041108 Firefox/1.0

Description of problem:
assigning off the end of the array after a split could leave garbage
in the inner elements.

#! /usr/bin/perl
@a = split /,/, "," x 50;
$a[3]=1;
$x = \$a[2];
print ref($x),"\n";


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
perl-5.8.0-88.9

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. run above test code.
2.
3.
    

Actual Results:  UNKNOWN

Expected Results:  SCALAR

Additional info:

see also perl bug #28938
Comment 1 Jason Vas Dias 2005-11-09 02:02:57 UTC 
We apologize for the long delay in processing this bug report.

This bug is fixed with perl-5.8.0-90.2 , which should be in the next RHEL-3
update release.
Comment 5 Red Hat Bugzilla 2005-12-20 14:58:05 UTC 
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-881.html
Note You need to log in before you can comment on or make changes to this bug.