Security Advisories (1)
CVE-2016-1238

Digest::SHA before 5.96 with perls earlier than v5.26 included the current working directory in the module search path, which could lead to the inadvernant loading of unexpected versions of a module. The current directory was removed from the default module search path in perls from v5.26 and later.

Changes for version 5.81 - 2013-01-14

  • corrected load subroutine (SHA.pm) to prevent double-free
    • Bug #82655: Security issue - segfault
    • thanks to Victor Efimov and Nicholas Clark for technical expertise and suggestions

Documentation

Print or Check SHA Checksums

Modules

Perl extension for SHA-1/224/256/384/512

Examples