On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 11:54:08AM +0000, Tom Hukins wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 05:29:17PM +0000, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> > portdowngrade is what you'ld have to use.  However, perl-5.8.8 has known
> > security vulnerabilities:
> > 
> >    http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/4a99d61c-f23a-11dd-9f55-0030843d3802.html
> 
> It looks like VuXML might have got that wrong.  The referenced CVE
> describes Perl 5.8.4 as fixing this bug:
> http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-0448

It looks like I didn't read carefully enough:  the vulnerability in
rmtree() also exists in 5.8.8:
http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/13b0c8c8-bee0-11dd-a708-001fc66e7203.html

Apologies,
Tom
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