CVE-2004-0377

CRITICAL

10.0

CVSS Severity Score

EPSS Score0.0810%

EPSS Percentile9.21th

PublishedMay 4, 2004

Last ModifiedApr 16, 2026

Vulnerability Description

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.

Affected Platforms (CPE)

📦

Activestate

Activeperl

All versions

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Larry Wall

Perl

<= 5.8.3

References & Advisories

🔗 http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2004-April/019794.html

🔗 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=108118694327979&w=2

🔗 http://public.activestate.com/cgi-bin/perlbrowse?patch=22552

🔗 http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=93&type=vulnerabilities

🔗 http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/722414

🔗 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/15732