CVE-2004-0377: Activestate Activeperl

High severity, CVSS 10.0. EPSS: 6.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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 products

• Activestate Activeperl: any version
• Larry Wall Perl: up to and including 5.8.3

Published 2004-05-04. Last modified 2026-06-16.