diff --git a/perl.changes b/perl.changes
index e7d29d2..f5baf41 100644
--- a/perl.changes
+++ b/perl.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Fri Apr 11 17:49:26 CEST 2008 - mls@suse.de
+
+- compile with -DPERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV [bnc#377543]
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Thu Apr 10 12:54:45 CEST 2008 - ro@suse.de
 
diff --git a/perl.spec b/perl.spec
index b6fba00..2e11683 100644
--- a/perl.spec
+++ b/perl.spec
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ Name:           perl
 Url:            http://www.perl.org/
 BuildRequires:  db-devel gdbm-devel ncurses-devel zlib-devel
 Version:        5.10.0
-Release:        26
+Release:        27
 Summary:        The Perl interpreter
 License:        Artistic License; GPL v2 or later
 Group:          Development/Languages/Perl
@@ -115,6 +115,8 @@ options="-Doptimize='$RPM_OPT_FLAGS -Wall -pipe -mieee'"
 %ifarch ppc ppc64
 options="$options -Duse64bitint"
 %endif
+# always use glibc's setenv
+options="$options -Accflags='-DPERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV'"
 chmod 755 ./configure.gnu
 ./configure.gnu --prefix=/usr -Dvendorprefix=/usr -Dinstallusrbinperl -Dusethreads -Di_db -Di_dbm -Di_ndbm -Di_gdbm -Duseshrplib=\'true\' $options
 make
@@ -331,6 +333,8 @@ cat perl-pod-excludes >> perl-base-excludes
 %doc /usr/lib/perl5/*/unicore/*.txt
 
 %changelog
+* Fri Apr 11 2008 mls@suse.de
+- compile with -DPERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV [bnc#377543]
 * Thu Apr 10 2008 ro@suse.de
 - added baselibs.conf file to build xxbit packages
   for multilib support