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Security Advisories (1)
CVE-2006-4484 (2008-10-01)

Buffer overflow in the LWZReadByte_ function in the GD extension in allows remote attackers to have an unknown impact via a GIF file with input_code_size greater than MAX_LWZ_BITS, which triggers an overflow when initializing the table array.

NAME

blib - Use MakeMaker's uninstalled version of a package

SYNOPSIS

perl -Mblib script [args...]

perl -Mblib=dir script [args...]

DESCRIPTION

Looks for MakeMaker-like 'blib' directory structure starting in dir (or current directory) and working back up to five levels of '..'.

Intended for use on command line with -M option as a way of testing arbitary scripts against an uninstalled version of a package.

However it is possible to :

use blib; 
or 
use blib '..';

etc. if you really must.

BUGS

Pollutes global name space for development only task.

AUTHOR

Nick Ing-Simmons nik@tiuk.ti.com