maintainer-feedback requested: [Bug 218946] lang/perl5.24 - remote DoS via CPU exhaustion by exercising glob expansion

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Sevan Janiyan <sevan at freebsd.org> has reassigned Bugzilla Automation
<bugzilla at FreeBSD.org>'s request for maintainer-feedback to perl at FreeBSD.org:
Bug 218946: lang/perl5.24 - remote DoS via CPU exhaustion by exercising glob
expansion
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=218946



--- Description ---
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/33252c318625f3c6c89b816ee88481940e3e
6f95

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