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 5.93 - 2014-10-26

  • corrected alignment problem in SHA struct (src/sha.h)
    • thanks to H. Merijn Brand and J. Hietaniemi for analysis and suggested patch
  • provided workaround in t/methods.t for unreliable -T test
    • Some Perl 5.8's mistake text for binary

Documentation

Print or Check SHA Checksums

Modules

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

Examples