forward port request: 6921610: 1.6 update 17 and 18 throw java.lang.IndexOutOfBoundsException

[Joe Darcy]

Weijun Wang wrote:
> Hi Joe
>
> This bug was fixed in 6u21 and just forward ported into openjdk-7. I 
> hereby request it be fixed in openjdk-6 also.
>
> With this fix, Java can deal with abnormal LDAP server responses. I 
> have two code reviewers for it.
>
> You can see a webrev/diff/patch/changeset here:
>
>    http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/tl/jdk/rev/95bb147c7c33
>
> The code change is identical across JDK6, openjdk-6 and openjdk-7.
>
> Thanks
> Max

Hello Max.

I approve this fix being ported to OpenJDK 6 as-is; however, I would 
prefer to see a regression test for this bug.

Cheers,

-Joe