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Second-hand security (Score:1)
If you look closely at the advisory, it states that it's original source is a Trustix [trustix.org] advisory. If you read the original it states that some of scripts contained in the Trustix packages handle temporary files in an insecure fashion, and this is the reason for the recommended upgrade. So the original wasn't a problem with Perl, but instead a problem with some particular scripts bundled with Perl (and ghostscript, glibc, groff, and many more).
Unfortunately, this is a clear case of security-advisory Chin
Re:Second-hand security (Score:1)
The bad news is that *almost* no one will bother to do so... So Perl will get the blame, true or not
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