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Id: 58954
Status: resolved
Priority: 0/
Queue: bignum
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Owner: Nobody in particular
Requestors: dstahlke [...] gmail.com
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Bug Information
Severity: Important
Broken in: 0.22
Fixed in: 0.41

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  Tue Jun 29 16:37:48 2010 DSTAHLKE [...] cpan.org - Ticket created
bignum's oct function does not perform a conversion if its argument doesn't start with '0'. $ perl -e 'print oct(100)," ",hex(100),"\n"' 64 256 $ perl -Mbignum -e 'print oct(100)," ",hex(100),"\n"' 100 256 $ perl -Mbignum -e 'print oct("0100")," ",hex(100),"\n"' 64 256
  Mon Jul 26 17:13:03 2010 dstahlke [...] gmail.com - Correspondence added
Subject: security consequences
From: dstahlke [...] gmail.com
I should mention that this potentially has security consequences since oct() is often used as a parameter to chmod. An application that has been tested to work will suddenly have different behavior when 'use bignum;' is added.
  Mon Feb 14 07:53:38 2011 peter.john.acklam [...] gmail.com - Correspondence added
The _oct() subroutine in bignum.pm requires octal numbers to have a leading '0' (zero). The input to _oct() is passed to the from_oct() subroutine in Math/BigInt.pm, which also requires octal numbers to have a leading zero.
  Mon Feb 14 07:53:40 2011 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'
  Mon Feb 14 08:15:55 2011 peter.john.acklam [...] gmail.com - Correspondence added
A fix for this should also give the same output as the cases below, when bignum is in effect. I.e., when the string is prefixed by '0b' or '0x', the prefix takes precedence: $ perl -wle 'print oct "0b1111"' 15 $ perl -wle 'print oct "01111"' 585 $ perl -wle 'print oct "0x1111"' 4369
  Thu Dec 03 08:22:16 2015 peter.john.acklam [...] gmail.com - Correspondence added
Resolved in bignum-0.41
  Thu Dec 03 08:22:24 2015 peter.john.acklam [...] gmail.com - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'
  Thu Dec 03 08:22:32 2015 peter.john.acklam [...] gmail.com - Fixed in 0.41 added
  Thu Dec 03 08:22:34 2015 peter.john.acklam [...] gmail.com - Fixed in 0.17 deleted