CVE-2004-2022 - CVE House
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Status published Low CVE-2004-2022

ActivePerl 5.8.x and others, and Larry Wall's Perl 5.6.1 and...

Vulnerability 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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

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Affected Vendor

activestate

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Affected Software

activeperl
Vulnerable Versions:
5.6.1, 5.6.1.630, 5.6.2, 5.6.3, 5.7.1, 5.7.2, 5.7.3, 5.8

Timeline

Official Publish: May 10th, 2005
Last Modified: August 8th, 2024
Added to House: July 18th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.