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.

NAME

module_provision - Create new Perl distributions

SYNOPSIS

module_provision dist Your::Distribution

Creates a new distribution with a git repository and a Module::Build toolchain

module_provision -H | -h [method] | -?

Display man page / method help / usage strings

module_provision list_methods

Lists the methods available in this program

VERSION

This documents version v0.3.$Rev: 39 $ of Module::Provision

DESCRIPTION

Create Perl distributions with VCS and Module::Build toolchain

REQUIRED ARGUMENTS

Your::Distribution

The package name of the new distribution to create

OPTIONS

-D

Turn debugging on

DIAGNOSTICS

Prints errors to stderr

EXIT STATUS

Returns zero on success, non zero on failure

CONFIGURATION

Uses the constructor's appclass attribute to locate a configuration file

DEPENDENCIES

Module::Provision

INCOMPATIBILITIES

None

BUGS AND LIMITATIONS

Send reports to address below

AUTHOR

Peter Flanigan, <Support at RoxSoft dot co dot uk>

LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2013 Peter Flanigan

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.