CPAN shell fails to start due to segfault.

Issue

• CPAN shell fails to start due to segfault. Get the following error:

# cpan
Attempt to free unreferenced scalar: SV 0x87bf8e4, Perl interpreter: 0x869f008 at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/ExtUtils/Liblist.pm line 6.
Segmentation fault

• Reinstalling perl and all the other packages relating to perl hasn't resolved the issue.

mod_perl-2.0.4-6.el5.i386                                   Mon 25 Aug 2014 10:11:02 AM CDT
perl-5.8.8-38.el5_8.i386                                    Tue 26 Aug 2014 07:51:44 AM CDT
perl-BSD-Resource-1.28-1.fc6.1.i386                         Mon 25 Aug 2014 10:11:02 AM CDT
perl-Compress-Zlib-1.42-1.fc6.i386                          Mon 25 Aug 2014 10:11:02 AM CDT
perl-DBD-MySQL-3.0007-2.el5.i386                            Mon 25 Aug 2014 10:11:02 AM CDT
perl-DBI-1.52-2.el5.i386                                    Mon 25 Aug 2014 10:11:02 AM CDT
perl-HTML-Parser-3.55-1.fc6.i386                            Mon 25 Aug 2014 10:11:02 AM CDT
perl-HTML-Tagset-3.10-2.1.1.noarch                          Mon 25 Aug 2014 10:11:02 AM CDT
perl-IO-Socket-INET6-2.51-2.fc6.noarch                      Mon 25 Aug 2014 10:11:02 AM CDT
perl-libwww-perl-5.805-1.1.1.noarch                         Mon 25 Aug 2014 10:11:02 AM CDT
perl-Socket6-0.19-3.fc6.i386                                Mon 25 Aug 2014 10:11:02 AM CDT
perl-String-CRC32-1.4-2.fc6.i386                            Mon 25 Aug 2014 10:11:02 AM CDT
perl-suidperl-5.8.8-38.el5_8.i386                           Mon 25 Aug 2014 10:11:02 AM CDT
perl-URI-1.35-3.noarch                                      Mon 25 Aug 2014 10:11:02 AM CDT
perl-XML-Parser-2.34-6.1.2.2.1.i386                         Mon 25 Aug 2014 10:11:02 AM CDT