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CVE-2004-2022 Details

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

No CVSS 3.x data is available for this CVE.

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URL	Source(s)	Tag(s)
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2004-05/0905.html	CVE
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=108489894009025&w=2	CVE
http://marc.info/?l=full-disclosure&m=108482796105922&w=2	CVE
http://marc.info/?l=full-disclosure&m=108483058514596&w=2	CVE
http://marc.info/?l=full-disclosure&m=108489112131099&w=2	CVE
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16169	CVE
http://www.oliverkarow.de/research/ActivePerlSystemBOF.txt	CVE	Exploit
http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=354145	CVE	Exploit
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10375	CVE	Exploit
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2004-05/0905.html	[email protected]
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=108489894009025&w=2	[email protected]
http://marc.info/?l=full-disclosure&m=108482796105922&w=2	[email protected]
http://marc.info/?l=full-disclosure&m=108483058514596&w=2	[email protected]
http://marc.info/?l=full-disclosure&m=108489112131099&w=2	[email protected]
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16169	[email protected]
http://www.oliverkarow.de/research/ActivePerlSystemBOF.txt	[email protected]	Exploit
http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=354145	[email protected]	Exploit
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10375	[email protected]	Exploit

see all 18 references

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID	CWE Name	Source
NVD-CWE-Other	Weakness Not in a Standard CWE Category	[email protected]

Affected Products

Product	Versions
activestate activeperl	5.6.1 5.6.1.630 5.6.2 5.6.3 5.7.1
CPE cpe:2.3:a:activestate:activeperl:5.6.1:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:activestate:activeperl:5.6.1.630:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:activestate:activeperl:5.6.2:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:activestate:activeperl:5.6.3:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:activestate:activeperl:5.7.1:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:activestate:activeperl:5.7.2:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:activestate:activeperl:5.7.3:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:activestate:activeperl:5.8:::::::* Remediation No remediation found in references.

Product

Versions

activestate activeperl

5.6.1

5.6.1.630

5.6.2

5.6.3

5.7.1

CPE

cpe:2.3:a:activestate:activeperl:5.6.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:activestate:activeperl:5.6.1.630:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:activestate:activeperl:5.6.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:activestate:activeperl:5.6.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:activestate:activeperl:5.7.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:activestate:activeperl:5.7.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:activestate:activeperl:5.7.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:activestate:activeperl:5.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Remediation

No remediation found in references.

Change History

7 change records found show changes

Date	Action	Recorded By
Jun 16, 2026	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Apr 16, 2026		[email protected]
Nov 20, 2024	CVE Modified	CVE
May 14, 2024	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Jul 11, 2017	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Oct 18, 2016	CVE Modified	[email protected]
May 26, 2005	Initial Analysis	[email protected]