Security Advisories (1)
CVE-2014-5260 (2014-08-16)

The (1) mkxmltype and (2) mkdtskel scripts in XML-DT before 0.64 allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a /tmp/_xml_##### temporary file.

Changes for version 0.16

  • problems with the changes on UNICODE
  • 0.15 does not work with perl 5.005 (no tr .... UC available)..
  • Solution: "use bytes" if we find it. eval("use bytes") if ($inc{bytes.pm}) { require and import...}

Modules

a package for down translation of XML to strings

Provides

in DT.pm