perl - insecure temporary files / directories

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in Perl, the popular
scripting language. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project
identifies the following problems:

• CAN-2004-0452
  Jeroen van Wolffelaar discovered that the rmtree() function in the
  File::Path module removes directory trees in an insecure manner
  which could lead to the removal of arbitrary files and directories
  through a symlink attack.

• CAN-2004-0976
  Trustix developers discovered several insecure uses of temporary
  files in many modules which allow a local attacker to overwrite
  files via a symlink attack.

For the stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in
version 5.6.1-8.8.

For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in
version 5.8.4-5.

We recommend that you upgrade your perl packages.