Security Advisories (2)
CVE-2016-1238 (2016-02-08)

Does not properly remove . (period) characters from the end of the includes directory array, which might allow local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse module under the current working directory.

CVE-2015-8607 (2016-01-11)

Does not properly preserve the taint attribute of data, which might allow context-dependent attackers to bypass the taint protection mechanism via a crafted string.

NAME

File::Spec::OS2 - methods for OS/2 file specs

SYNOPSIS

require File::Spec::OS2; # Done internally by File::Spec if needed

DESCRIPTION

See File::Spec and File::Spec::Unix. This package overrides the implementation of these methods, not the semantics.

Amongst the changes made for OS/2 are...

tmpdir

Modifies the list of places temp directory information is looked for.

$ENV{TMPDIR}
$ENV{TEMP}
$ENV{TMP}
/tmp
/
splitpath

Volumes can be drive letters or UNC sharenames (\\server\share).

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2004 by the Perl 5 Porters. All rights reserved.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.