Security Advisories (1)
CVE-2016-1238 (2016-08-02)

(1) cpan/Archive-Tar/bin/ptar, (2) cpan/Archive-Tar/bin/ptardiff, (3) cpan/Archive-Tar/bin/ptargrep, (4) cpan/CPAN/scripts/cpan, (5) cpan/Digest-SHA/shasum, (6) cpan/Encode/bin/enc2xs, (7) cpan/Encode/bin/encguess, (8) cpan/Encode/bin/piconv, (9) cpan/Encode/bin/ucmlint, (10) cpan/Encode/bin/unidump, (11) cpan/ExtUtils-MakeMaker/bin/instmodsh, (12) cpan/IO-Compress/bin/zipdetails, (13) cpan/JSON-PP/bin/json_pp, (14) cpan/Test-Harness/bin/prove, (15) dist/ExtUtils-ParseXS/lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp, (16) dist/Module-CoreList/corelist, (17) ext/Pod-Html/bin/pod2html, (18) utils/c2ph.PL, (19) utils/h2ph.PL, (20) utils/h2xs.PL, (21) utils/libnetcfg.PL, (22) utils/perlbug.PL, (23) utils/perldoc.PL, (24) utils/perlivp.PL, and (25) utils/splain.PL in Perl 5.x before 5.22.3-RC2 and 5.24 before 5.24.1-RC2 do 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.

Changes for version 2.20_05 - 2009-08-22

  • Bug fixes:
  • Fix prototype related bugs [Goro Fuji]
  • Fix the SCOPE keyword [Goro Fuji]

Changes for version 2.20_04 - 2009-08-10

  • Bug fixes:
  • Changed install_dirs to 'core' for 5.8.9 as well (RT#48474)
  • Removed t/bugs.t until there is better C++ support in ExtUtils::CBuilder
  • Other:
  • Updated repository URL in META file

Changes for version 2.20_03 - 2009-07-23

  • Bug fixes:
  • Fixed "const char *" errors for 5.8.8 (and older) (RT#48104)
    • Vincent Pit
  • Added newline before a preprocessor directive (RT#30673)
    • patch by hjp

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