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Pod-Perldoc-3.21
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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.

Changes for version 3.21 - 2014-01-06

  • Add '-a' flag to search through perlapi documentation. Patch by Matthew Horsfall.
  • Apply RT #91733 to install perldoc.pod in the right place. Should fix RT #88898 too. Patch by Dave Mitchell.

Changes for version 3.21_01 - 2013-11-19

  • Do not modify @INC to look for docs perl RT #120357 (Patch by Kent Fredric)
  • Prefer mandoc on bitrig
  • Fix typos

Documentation

perldoc
Look up Perl documentation in Pod format.

Modules

Pod::Perldoc
Look up Perl documentation in Pod format.
Pod::Perldoc::BaseTo
Base for Pod::Perldoc formatters
Pod::Perldoc::GetOptsOO
Customized option parser for Pod::Perldoc
Pod::Perldoc::ToANSI
render Pod with ANSI color escapes
Pod::Perldoc::ToChecker
let Perldoc check Pod for errors
Pod::Perldoc::ToMan
let Perldoc render Pod as man pages
Pod::Perldoc::ToNroff
let Perldoc convert Pod to nroff
Pod::Perldoc::ToPod
let Perldoc render Pod as ... Pod!
Pod::Perldoc::ToRtf
let Perldoc render Pod as RTF
Pod::Perldoc::ToTerm
render Pod with terminal escapes
Pod::Perldoc::ToText
let Perldoc render Pod as plaintext
Pod::Perldoc::ToTk
let Perldoc use Tk::Pod to render Pod
Pod::Perldoc::ToXml
let Perldoc render Pod as XML

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