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Use after free in my_login() function of DBD::mysql (Perl module)

DBD::mysql versions 4.033 and earlier have a use after free bug in the my_login() function. DBD::mysql is a Perl module providing bindings to the mysql database. The issue was fixed in version 4.034.

This issue was discovered with Address Sanitizer.

Pull request / patch
CVE-2015-8949

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