Security Advisories (1)
CVE-2025-40909 (2025-05-30)

Perl threads have a working directory race condition where file operations may target unintended paths. If a directory handle is open at thread creation, the process-wide current working directory is temporarily changed in order to clone that handle for the new thread, which is visible from any third (or more) thread already running. This may lead to unintended operations such as loading code or accessing files from unexpected locations, which a local attacker may be able to exploit. The bug was introduced in commit 11a11ecf4bea72b17d250cfb43c897be1341861e and released in Perl version 5.13.6

NAME

Pod::Perldoc::ToChecker - let Perldoc check Pod for errors

SYNOPSIS

% perldoc -o checker SomeFile.pod
No Pod errors in SomeFile.pod
(or an error report)

DESCRIPTION

This is a "plug-in" class that allows Perldoc to use Pod::Simple::Checker as a "formatter" class (or if that is not available, then Pod::Checker), to check for errors in a given Pod file.

This is actually a Pod::Simple::Checker (or Pod::Checker) subclass, and inherits all its options.

SEE ALSO

Pod::Simple::Checker, Pod::Simple, Pod::Checker, Pod::Perldoc

COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMERS

Copyright (c) 2002 Sean M. Burke. All rights reserved.

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

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but without any warranty; without even the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

AUTHOR

Current maintainer: Mark Allen <mallen@cpan.org>

Past contributions from: brian d foy <bdfoy@cpan.org> Adriano R. Ferreira <ferreira@cpan.org>, Sean M. Burke <sburke@cpan.org>