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CVE-2004-0377

• Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 6.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2004-05-04 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Buffer overflow in the win32_stat function for (1) ActiveState's ActivePerl and (2) Larry Wall's Perl before 5.8.3 allows local or remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via filenames that end in a backslash character.

Affected products

• Activestate Activeperl: all versions
• Larry Wall Perl: through 5.8.3

References

• http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2004-April/019794.html
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=108118694327979&w=2
• http://public.activestate.com/cgi-bin/perlbrowse?patch=22552
• http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=93&type=vulnerabilities
• http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/722414
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/15732
• http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2004-April/019794.html
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=108118694327979&w=2
• http://public.activestate.com/cgi-bin/perlbrowse?patch=22552
• http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=93&type=vulnerabilities
• http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/722414
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/15732

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