[Bug 1521043] Re: less 458 crashes if search regex has many groups

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This bug was fixed in the package less - 458-3ubuntu1

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less (458-3ubuntu1) xenial; urgency=medium

  * d/p/03-707824-fix_double_free_with_multiple_regex_groups.patch:
    - Cherry-pick upstream fix for double free in regular expression
      code.  (Closes: #707824; LP: #1521043)

 -- Richard Hansen <rhansen at rhansen.org>  Sun, 29 Nov 2015 22:40:34
-0500

** Changed in: less (Ubuntu)
       Status: Triaged => Fix Released

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Title:
  less 458 crashes if search regex has many groups

Status in less package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in less package in Debian:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  less 458 crashes if there are enough capture groups in the regular
  expression used for search:

      newline=$(printf \\nx); newline=${newline%x}
      echo x | LESS="+g/(((((x)))))${newline}" less

  On amd64, the above produces a segfault:

      Segmentation fault (core dumped)

  On i386, the above triggers an assert:

      *** Error in `less': double free or corruption (fasttop): 0x0887f9e8 ***
      Aborted

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