Here's version 2 of this patch. The differences are improved context in perl-CVE-2016-2381.patch and a fixed typo in the commit message.
I'm sending this with `git send-email` (Perl script) built on top of this change. Leo Famulari (1): gnu: perl: Replace with patched version [fixes CVE-2016-2381]. gnu-system.am | 1 + gnu/packages/commencement.scm | 1 + gnu/packages/patches/perl-CVE-2016-2381.patch | 116 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ gnu/packages/perl.scm | 23 +++++ 4 files changed, 141 insertions(+) create mode 100644 gnu/packages/patches/perl-CVE-2016-2381.patch -- 2.6.3