CVE-2004-2022

Severity: low (CVSS 2.1 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2004-12-31 · updated 2026-06-16

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.

Affected products

Activestate Activeperl: 5.6.1, 5.6.1.630, 5.6.2, 5.6.3, 5.7.1, 5.7.2 (+2)

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.txt
http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=354145
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10375
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

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