Larry Wall » Perl » 5.8.3 : Security Vulnerabilities, CVEs,
Buffer overflow in the polymorphic opcode support in the Regular Expression Engine (regcomp.c) in Perl 5.8 allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code by switching from byte to Unicode (UTF) characters in a regular expression.
Max CVSS
7.5
EPSS Score
3.23%
Published
2007-11-07
Updated
2018-10-15
Untrusted search path vulnerability in Perl before 5.8.7-r1 on Gentoo Linux allows local users in the portage group to gain privileges via a malicious shared object in the Portage temporary build directory, which is part of the RUNPATH.
Max CVSS
7.2
EPSS Score
0.06%
Published
2005-12-16
Updated
2013-10-24
Race condition in the rmtree function in File::Path.pm in Perl before 5.8.4 allows local users to create arbitrary setuid binaries in the tree being deleted, a different vulnerability than CVE-2004-0452.
Max CVSS
1.2
EPSS Score
0.06%
Published
2005-05-02
Updated
2018-10-03
Buffer overflow in the PerlIO implementation in Perl 5.8.0, when installed with setuid support (sperl), allows local users to execute arbitrary code by setting the PERLIO_DEBUG variable and executing a Perl script whose full pathname contains a long directory tree.
Max CVSS
2.1
EPSS Score
0.04%
Published
2005-02-07
Updated
2018-08-13
Integer overflow in the duplication operator in ActivePerl allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a large multiplier, which may trigger a buffer overflow.
Max CVSS
7.5
EPSS Score
2.37%
Published
2004-12-31
Updated
2017-07-11
Multiple scripts in the perl package in Trustix Secure Linux 1.5 through 2.1 and other operating systems allows local users to overwrite files via a symlink attack on temporary files.
Max CVSS
2.1
EPSS Score
0.04%
Published
2005-02-09
Updated
2017-10-11
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.
Max CVSS
10.0
EPSS Score
3.49%
Published
2004-05-04
Updated
2017-07-11
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