Re: Potentially insecure Perl scripts

[Mark Fowler <mark@twoshortplanks.com>]

On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 10:18 AM Ian Jackson <ijackson@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.