Debian 8 DSA-3628-1 Critical: Perl Module Loading Threats

CVE-2016-1238

John Lightsey and Todd Rinaldo reported that the opportunistic
loading of optional modules can make many programs unintentionally
load code from the current working directory (which might be changed
to another directory without the user realising) and potentially
leading to privilege escalation, as demonstrated in Debian with
certain combinations of installed packages.

The problem relates to Perl loading modules from the includes
directory array ("@INC") in which the last element is the current
directory ("."). That means that, when "perl" wants to load a module
(during first compilation or during lazy loading of a module in run-
time), perl will look for the module in the current directory at the
end, since '.' is the last include directory in its array of include
directories to seek. The issue is with requiring libraries that are
in "." but are not otherwise installed.

With this update several modules which are known to be...