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 2.21 - 2009-10-05

  • Bug fixes:
  • Adds full path in INCLUDE #line directives (RT#50198) [patch by "spb"]
  • Other:
  • Updated copyright and maintainer list

Changes for version 2.20_07 - 2009-10-03

  • Bug fixes:
  • Use "char* file" for perl < 5.9, not "char[] file"; fixes mod_perl breakage due to prior attempts to fix RT#48104 [David Golden]

Changes for version 2.20_06 - 2009-10-02

  • Bug fixes:
  • Added t/typemap to fix broken test on perl 5.6.2 [David Golden]
  • More prototype fixes for older perls [Goro Fuji]
  • Avoid "const char *" in test files as it breaks on 5.6.2 [Goro Fuji]
  • Other:
  • Merged changes from 2.2004 maintenance branch (see 2.200401 to 2.200403)
    • David Golden

Changes for version 2.20_05 - 2009-08-22

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

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