Socket-1.95_002

Security Advisories (1)

CPANSA-Socket-2017-01 (2017-08-17)

The function croak is variadic which expects as a first parameter printf-style format. Passing arbitrary and string from the caller as a printf format leads to the security problem CWE-134: Use of Externally-Controlled Format String.

https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=122830

Changes for version 1.95_002

Complete rewrite of module docs; list all the constants and functions, updated SYNOPSIS
Added convenient Exporter tag :addrinfo for all the gai/gni-related symbols

Changes for version 1.95_001

Avoid newSVpvn_flags(), as it's missing on older Perls
Implement getnameinfo() NIx_NOHOST and NIx_NOSERV extension flags

Modules

Socket

networking constants and structure manipulators

Other files

To install Socket, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.

cpanm

cpanm Socket

CPAN shell

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install Socket

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Changes for version 1.95_001

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