Bug#756566: CVE Request: XML-DT: Insecure use of temporary files

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> mkdtskel and mkxmltype using insecurely temporary files using the pid
> of the process in the temporary file name.
> 
> /tmp/_xml_$$
> 
> https://bugs.debian.org/756566

Use CVE-2014-5260.


> fixed in XML-DT 0.65 upstream, see
> 
> https://metacpan.org/diff/file?target=AMBS/XML-DT-0.65/&source=AMBS/XML-DT-0.63/

This actually doesn't seem to be fixed. However, we don't immediately
see a security problem in version 0.65 (only a usability problem), so
a second CVE ID isn't assigned at this point.

Specifically, the latest version has:

  https://metacpan.org/source/AMBS/XML-DT-0.65/mkxmltype

  system("head -$lines $fname | xmllint --recover - > $fname");

which looks unintended (maybe $fname will always end up as a
zero-length file?). 

This apparently also affects libxml-dt-perl (0.65-1) from the
https://packages.debian.org/sid/libxml-dt-perl page.

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