[nycbug-talk] insecure perl port?

[Pete Wright]

On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 03:16:09PM -0500, Pete Wright wrote:
> hey has anyone been following this on the list:
> 
> (from my nightly portaudit)
> Affected package: perl-5.8.5
> Type of problem: perl -- File::Path insecure file/directory permissions.
> Reference: <http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/portaudit/c418d472-6bd1-11d9-93ca-000a95bc6fae.html>
> 
> (now i won't tell you which box this on..sorry ;)
> i've checked the reference URL and didn't find any more info,
> and it does not seem that the port's tree has been updated
> to fix this yet (atleast it wasn't a little while ago).  any
> ideas?
> 


going to follow up on this one, it appears that as of today (02.01.05)
there has been a new perl5.8 port released the version up to 5.8.6.  
I would read /usr/ports/UPDATING before upgrading this, but everyone 
already does that ;), because you will most likely have to upgrade 
pretty much everything that depends on perl as well.  fortunatly 
there is a nice script in UPDATING to assist with this.

-pete


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