Dear monks,

I need to upgrade our perl 5.6.1 on solaris 8 due to the Perl Unspecified Insecure Temporary File Creation Vulnerability however, I couldn't find any patch for this on Sun, neither on cpan, or rt.perl.org

since we have many apps depends on 5.6.1, I am trying to patch the current perl or upgrade to a perl version that is as close as to the current one.

there is a debian patch posted on perl5porter though.

without much experience on upgrading perl, esp security issue (many time upgrading a module ending up upgrading perl, yuck!), my question is, does perl release patch,if so where do i find one? or I have to wait for my distro come up with the fix?

UPDATE: re-rearrange the last sentence.

In reply to security patch for perl 5.6.1 by Qiang

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