Description
ActivePerl 5.8.x and others, and Larry Wall's Perl 5.6.1 and others, when running on Windows systems, allows attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long argument to the system command, which leads to a stack-based buffer overflow. NOTE: it is unclear whether this bug is in Perl or the OS API that is used by Perl.
Metrics
CVSS 2.0 2.1/10
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:PAffected software
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| n/a | n/a | n/a |
References
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2004-05/0905.html
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=108489894009025&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=full-disclosure&m=108482796105922&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=full-disclosure&m=108483058514596&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=full-disclosure&m=108489112131099&w=2
- http://www.oliverkarow.de/research/ActivePerlSystemBOF.txtExploit
- http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=354145Exploit
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10375Exploit
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16169
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2004-05/0905.html
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=108489894009025&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=full-disclosure&m=108482796105922&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=full-disclosure&m=108483058514596&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=full-disclosure&m=108489112131099&w=2
- http://www.oliverkarow.de/research/ActivePerlSystemBOF.txtExploit
- http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=354145Exploit
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10375Exploit
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16169
Timeline
- Published
- Dec 31, 2004
- Last modified
- Jun 16, 2026
- NVD status
- Modified