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.

Changes for version 1.98_001

  • Better implementation of inet_pton() that sets correct size (RT 75074)
  • Added SO_DOMAIN
  • More robust unit tests of address-mangling functions

Modules

networking constants and support functions