ActiveState ActivePerl CVE-2004-2022 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.

Affected Applications

ActivePerl

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