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CVE-2024-56406 (2025-04-13)

A heap buffer overflow vulnerability was discovered in Perl. When there are non-ASCII bytes in the left-hand-side of the `tr` operator, `S_do_trans_invmap` can overflow the destination pointer `d`.    $ perl -e '$_ = "\x{FF}" x 1000000; tr/\xFF/\x{100}/;'    Segmentation fault (core dumped) It is believed that this vulnerability can enable Denial of Service and possibly Code Execution attacks on platforms that lack sufficient defenses.

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NAME

Pod::Functions - Group Perl's functions a la perlfunc.pod

SYNOPSIS

use Pod::Functions;

my @misc_ops = @{ $Kinds{ 'Misc' } };
my $misc_dsc = $Type_Description{ 'Misc' };

or

perl /path/to/lib/Pod/Functions.pm

This will print a grouped list of Perl's functions, like the "Perl Functions by Category" in perlfunc section.

DESCRIPTION

It exports the following variables:

%Kinds

This holds a hash-of-lists. Each list contains the functions in the category the key denotes.

%Type

In this hash each key represents a function and the value is the category. The category can be a comma separated list.

%Flavor

In this hash each key represents a function and the value is a short description of that function.

%Type_Description

In this hash each key represents a category of functions and the value is a short description of that category.

@Type_Order

This list of categories is used to produce the same order as the "Perl Functions by Category" in perlfunc section.