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.

Documentation

display the internal structure of zip files
Frequently Asked Questions about IO::Compress

Modules

Interface to zlib compression library
Extend File Glob to Allow Input and Output Files
Base Class for IO::Compress modules
Write bzip2 files/buffers
Write RFC 1950 files/buffers
Write RFC 1952 files/buffers
Write RFC 1951 files/buffers
Write zip files/buffers
Uncompress zlib-based (zip, gzip) file/buffer
Uncompress gzip, zip, bzip2 or lzop file/buffer
Base Class for IO::Uncompress modules
Read bzip2 files/buffers
Read RFC 1952 files/buffers
Read RFC 1950 files/buffers
Read RFC 1951 files/buffers
Read zip files/buffers

Provides

in lib/IO/Compress/Adapter/Bzip2.pm
in lib/IO/Compress/Adapter/Deflate.pm
in lib/IO/Compress/Adapter/Identity.pm
in lib/IO/Compress/Base/Common.pm
in lib/IO/Compress/Gzip/Constants.pm
in lib/IO/Compress/Zip/Constants.pm
in lib/IO/Compress/Zlib/Constants.pm
in lib/IO/Compress/Zlib/Extra.pm
in lib/IO/Uncompress/Adapter/Bunzip2.pm
in lib/IO/Uncompress/Adapter/Identity.pm
in lib/IO/Uncompress/Adapter/Inflate.pm
in private/MakeUtil.pm
U64
in lib/IO/Compress/Base/Common.pm
in lib/Compress/Zlib.pm
in lib/Compress/Zlib.pm