Bug#810924: Reassign to perl

Mark Hindley mark at hindley.org.uk
Sat Jan 30 12:50:28 UTC 2016


On Sat, Jan 30, 2016 at 10:25:09AM +0200, Niko Tyni wrote:
> found 810924 5.22.1-4
> forwarded 810924 https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=127322
> tag 810924 patch fixed-upstream pending
> thanks
> 
> On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 05:18:41PM +0000, Mark Hindley wrote:
>  
> > In perl 5.22.1 IO::File->new_tmpfile returns a file with mode 0000. Trying to
> > reopen this within the same process then fails with permission denied. In perl
> > versions prior to this the temporary file has mode 0600.
> 
> Thanks. I forwarded this upstream in
>  https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=127322
> but it took them a while to assess potential security implications.
> In the end those were deemed minor enough that the fix was released
> without the full security coordination process.
> 
> I'm attaching the patch that was applied upstream. This will be in the
> next Debian upload.

Thanks very much.

Looks good to me.

Mark




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