CVE-2004-2286: Activestate Activeperl

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Integer overflow in the duplication operator in ActivePerl allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a large multiplier, which may trigger a buffer overflow.

Affected products

• Activestate Activeperl: version 5.6.1 only; version 5.6.1.630 only; version 5.6.2 only; version 5.6.3 only; version 5.7.1 only; version 5.7.2 only; …
• Larry Wall Perl: version 5.3 only; version 5.4 only; version 5.4.5 only; version 5.5 only; version 5.5.3 only; version 5.6 only; …

Published 2004-12-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.