Potentially insecure Perl scripts

[Mark Fowler]

On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 10:18 AM Ian Jackson <
ijackson at chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:

> To the Debian Perl maintainers: if I make a patch to make
>   -p -n <>
> use the 3-argument form of open (or equivalent), will you apply it ?
>
> To the Debian security team: would you ship it in a security update ?
>

Wouldn't a less drastic approach be to change the vulnerable scripts to use
<<>> instead of <>?

Mark.
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