From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org>
Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 18:54:27 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: avoid reading out-of-bounds memory when matching against reference
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avoid reading out-of-bounds memory when matching against reference

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5167
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diff --git a/regexec.c b/regexec.c
index f9f2cc0..d2ebc44 100644
--- a/regexec.c
+++ b/regexec.c
@@ -688,7 +688,7 @@ Perl_re_intuit_start(pTHX_ regexp *prog, SV *sv, char *strpos,
 		? s + (prog->minlen? cl_l : 0)
 		: (prog->float_substr ? check_at - start_shift + cl_l
 				      : strend) ;
-	char *startpos = sv ? strend - SvCUR(sv) : s;
+	char *startpos = sv && SvPOK(sv) ? strend - SvCUR(sv) : s;
 
 	t = s;
 	if (prog->reganch & ROPT_UTF8) {