diff --git a/srcpkgs/perl/patches/cve-2012-5195.patch b/srcpkgs/perl/patches/cve-2012-5195.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 9fc4963ab2..0000000000
--- a/srcpkgs/perl/patches/cve-2012-5195.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,29 +0,0 @@
-commit b11b0d3ef18a35595a07a06c91fa4f27c9cacf5b
-Author: Andy Dougherty <doughera@lafayette.edu>
-Date:   Thu Sep 27 09:52:18 2012 -0400
-
-    avoid calling memset with a negative count
-
-    Poorly written perl code that allows an attacker to specify the count to
-    perl's 'x' string repeat operator can already cause a memory exhaustion
-    denial-of-service attack. A flaw in versions of perl before 5.15.5 can
-    escalate that into a heap buffer overrun; coupled with versions of glibc
-    before 2.16, it possibly allows the execution of arbitrary code.
-
-    The flaw addressed to this commit has been assigned identifier
-    CVE-2012-5195.
-
-diff --git a/util.c b/util.c
-index 171456f..34f5fa9 100644
---- util.c
-+++ util.c
-@@ -3416,6 +3416,9 @@ Perl_repeatcpy(register char *to, register const char *from, I32 len, register I
- {
-     PERL_ARGS_ASSERT_REPEATCPY;
-
-+    if (count < 0)
-+	Perl_croak_nocontext("%s",PL_memory_wrap);
-+
-     if (len == 1)
-	memset(to, *from, count);
-     else if (count) {
diff --git a/srcpkgs/perl/template b/srcpkgs/perl/template
index 3de9d0a0f3..b3d9be39d3 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/perl/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/perl/template
@@ -1,14 +1,14 @@
 # Template build file for 'perl'.
 pkgname=perl
-version=5.16.1
-revision=3
+version=5.16.2
+revision=1
 makedepends="gdbm-devel db-devel less groff"
 short_desc="Practical Extraction and Report Language"
 maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@gmail.com>"
 homepage="http://www.perl.org"
 license="GPL-2"
-distfiles="http://www.cpan.org/src/5.0/$pkgname-$version.tar.bz2"
-checksum=0704b1421fe50015becd32c8b7ed05843e8b6c188a8c16cb0c11d76986375fd0
+distfiles="http://www.cpan.org/src/5.0/perl-${version}.tar.bz2"
+checksum=5ba91d9aa40220c615b644bb48fa5df7fbca4afb1c9e911bdc0ce2a93f072d7d
 long_desc="
  Perl is a general-purpose programming language originally developed
  for text manipulation and now used for a wide range of tasks including
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ perl-Archive-Tar-1.82_1
 perl-Attribute-Handlers-0.93_1
 perl-AutoLoader-5.72_1
 perl-B-Debug-1.17_1
-perl-B-Deparse-1.14_1
+perl-B-Deparse-1.14_01_1
 perl-B-Lint-1.14_1
 perl-CGI-3.59_1
 perl-CPAN-1.9800_1
@@ -81,6 +81,17 @@ perl-Log-Message-Simple-0.08_1
 perl-MIME-Base64-3.13_1
 perl-Math-BigInt-1.998_1
 perl-Math-BigInt-FastCalc-0.30_1
+perl-Math-BigRat-0.2603_1
+perl-Math-Complex-1.59_1
+perl-Memoize-1.02_1
+perl-Module-Build-0.39_01_1
+perl-Module-CoreList-2.76_1
+perl-Module-Load-0.22_1
+perl-Module-Load-Conditional-0.46_1
+perl-Module-Loaded-0.08_1
+perl-Module-Metadata-1.000009_1
+perl-Module-Pluggable-4.0_1
+perl-NEXT-0.65_1
 perl-Net-Ping-2.38_1
 perl-Object-Accessor-0.42_1
 perl-Package-Constants-0.02_1
@@ -95,7 +106,7 @@ perl-Pod-Parser-1.51_1
 perl-Pod-Perldoc-3.17_1
 perl-Pod-Simple-3.20_1
 perl-Safe-2.31_01_1
-perl-Scalar-List-Utils-1.23_1
+perl-Scalar-List-Utils-1.25_1
 perl-Search-Dict-1.04_1
 perl-SelfLoader-1.20_1
 perl-Socket-2.001_1