Activeperl vulnerabilitiesRanked by how likely they are to be used.
Activeperl is made by Activestate. We track 6 published vulnerabilities in it, across 39 versions. None of them is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. If you run Activeperl, keep it on a version the vendor still supports.
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- 14%CVE-2001-0815High
Buffer overflow in PerlIS.dll in Activestate ActivePerl 5.6.1.629 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an HTTP request for a long filename that ends in a .pl extension.
- 8.0%CVE-2004-2286High
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.
- 6.8%CVE-2004-0377Critical
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...
- 1.7%
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...
- 1.3%CVE-2012-5377Medium
Untrusted search path vulnerability in the installation functionality in ActivePerl 5.16.1.1601, when installed in the top-level C:\ directory, allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse DLL in the...
- 0.4%CVE-2006-2856Medium
ActiveState ActivePerl 5.8.8.817 for Windows configures the site/lib directory with "Users" group permissions for changing files, which allows local users to gain privileges by creating a malicious sitecustomize.pl...
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Buffer overflow in PerlIS.dll in Activestate ActivePerl 5.6.1.629 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an HTTP request for a long filename that ends in a .pl extension.
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We track 6 published vulnerabilities listed under the name Activeperl, across 39 versions.
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