CVE-2004-0976: Larry Wall Perl

Low severity, CVSS 2.1. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Multiple scripts in the perl package in Trustix Secure Linux 1.5 through 2.1 and other operating systems allows local users to overwrite files via a symlink attack on temporary files.

Affected products

• Larry Wall Perl: version 5.6 only; version 5.6.1 only; version 5.8.0 only; version 5.8.1 only; version 5.8.3 only

Published 2005-02-09. Last modified 2026-06-16.