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[Bug 996947] Re: misc.last can crash the computer where the bot is running

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From: niko <996947@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 09 May 2012 17:47:38 -0000
Reply-to: Bug 996947 <996947@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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** Changed in: ubuntu-bots
   Importance: Undecided => High

** Changed in: ubuntu-bots
       Status: Invalid => Fix Committed

** Changed in: ubuntu-bots
     Assignee: (unassigned) => niko (nicolascoevoet)

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/996947

Title:
  misc.last can crash the computer where the bot is running

Status in The official Ubuntu IRC bots:
  Fix Committed
Status in “supybot” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “supybot” package in Debian:
  New

Bug description:
  With specific regular expressions in misc.last commnad, Supybot starts
  taking all resources, which in can get.

  Example of crashing command:
  !misc last --regexp m/(.*\w){512}/

  This bug has been fixed in forks, Gribble and Limnoria.
  http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/gribble/ https://github.com/ProgVal/Limnoria/

  Supybot upstream is dead.

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