G'day sidney,

Welcome to the Monastery.

"The line number in the error message indicates that it is running File::Temp version 0.2311 (the latest) or 0.2310, as they are the only versions with the mkdir call being on exactly line 542."

I did a bit of checking:

  1. The CPAN Testers report you gave as an example (https://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/a2c77f6e-77eb-11ed-aba6-9a79f339625c) has: "FAIL Mail-SpamAssassin-4.0.0-rc4a-TRIAL 5.18.2 GNU/Linux".
  2. https://perldoc.perl.org/5.18.2/File::Temp shows: "version 0.23". It also has a "Taint mode" note; this is very light on details but suggests a problem with File::Spec.
  3. "File::Temp v0.23 source" has at line 542: "... mkdir( $path, 0700) ...".

I haven't looked any further. Some potential avenues for your further troubleshooting.

Another idea might be to use Carp::Always to get a stacktrace leading to the "Insecure dependency in mkdir ..." message. I've often found this to be very useful in the past (e.g. in "Re: Image modules not returning or accepting GD::Image" just last week). Of course, that would require a "Mail-SpamAssassin-4.0.0-rc4b-TRIAL" (or whatever you call it) release and then awaiting subsequent CPAN Tester results; so, perhaps, an "if-all-else-fails" option.

— Ken

In reply to Re: Insecure dependency in mkdir while running with -T switch at ... File/Temp.pm line 542 by kcott
in thread Insecure dependency in mkdir while running with -T switch at ... File/Temp.pm line 542 by sidney

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