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 products
- activestate / activeperl5.6.1 – 5.6.1
- activestate / activeperl5.6.1.630 – 5.6.1.630
- activestate / activeperl5.6.2 – 5.6.2
- activestate / activeperl5.6.3 – 5.6.3
- activestate / activeperl5.7.1 – 5.7.1
- activestate / activeperl5.7.2 – 5.7.2
- activestate / activeperl5.7.3 – 5.7.3
- activestate / activeperl5.8 – 5.8
References
- MISChttps://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16169
- MISChttp://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=354145
- MAILING_LISThttp://marc.info/?l=full-disclosure&m=108489112131099&w=2
- MAILING_LISThttp://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=108489894009025&w=2
- MISChttp://www.oliverkarow.de/research/ActivePerlSystemBOF.txt
- MAILING_LISThttp://marc.info/?l=full-disclosure&m=108483058514596&w=2
- MAILING_LISThttp://marc.info/?l=full-disclosure&m=108482796105922&w=2
- MISChttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10375
- MISChttp://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2004-05/0905.html