This page lists publicly disclosed CVE vulnerabilities affecting larry_wall perl (linked via NVD CPE). Each row includes severity scores, summaries, and publication dates to help identify and analyze security issues.
| CVE | Summary | Source | Max CVSS | EPSS % | Published | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2007-5116 | Buffer overflow in the polymorphic opcode support in the Regular Expression Engine (regcomp.c) in Perl 5.8 allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code by switching from byte to Unicode (UTF) characters in a regular expression. | [email protected] | 7.5 | 8.80% | 2007-11-07 | 2026-04-23 |
| CVE-2005-4278 | Untrusted search path vulnerability in Perl before 5.8.7-r1 on Gentoo Linux allows local users in the portage group to gain privileges via a malicious shared object in the Portage temporary build directory, which is part of the RUNPATH. | [email protected] | 7.2 | 0.06% | 2005-12-16 | 2026-04-16 |
| CVE-2005-0448 | Race condition in the rmtree function in File::Path.pm in Perl before 5.8.4 allows local users to create arbitrary setuid binaries in the tree being deleted, a different vulnerability than CVE-2004-0452. | [email protected] | 1.2 | 0.06% | 2005-05-02 | 2026-04-16 |
| CVE-2005-0155 | The PerlIO implementation in Perl 5.8.0, when installed with setuid support (sperl), allows local users to create arbitrary files via the PERLIO_DEBUG variable. | [email protected] | 4.6 | 0.37% | 2005-05-02 | 2026-04-16 |
| CVE-2004-0976 | 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. | [email protected] | 2.1 | 0.08% | 2005-02-09 | 2026-04-16 |
| CVE-2005-0156 | Buffer overflow in the PerlIO implementation in Perl 5.8.0, when installed with setuid support (sperl), allows local users to execute arbitrary code by setting the PERLIO_DEBUG variable and executing a Perl script whose full pathname contains a long directory tree. | [email protected] | 2.1 | 0.38% | 2005-02-07 | 2026-04-16 |
| CVE-2004-2286 | 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. | [email protected] | 7.5 | 22.78% | 2004-12-31 | 2026-04-16 |
| CVE-2004-0452 | Race condition in the rmtree function in the File::Path module in Perl 5.6.1 and 5.8.4 sets read/write permissions for the world, which allows local users to delete arbitrary files and directories, and possibly read files and directories, via a symlink attack. | [email protected] | 2.6 | 0.05% | 2004-12-21 | 2026-04-16 |
| CVE-2004-0377 | 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. | [email protected] | 10.0 | 14.67% | 2004-05-04 | 2026-04-16 |
| CVE-2003-0900 | Perl 5.8.1 on Fedora Core does not properly initialize the random number generator when forking, which makes it easier for attackers to predict random numbers. | [email protected] | 5.0 | 0.47% | 2003-12-31 | 2026-04-16 |
| CVE-2000-0703 | suidperl (aka sperl) does not properly cleanse the escape sequence "~!" before calling /bin/mail to send an error report, which allows local users to gain privileges by setting the "interactive" environmental variable and calling suidperl with a filename that contains the escape sequence. | [email protected] | 7.2 | 0.25% | 2000-10-20 | 2026-04-16 |
| CVE-1999-0034 | Buffer overflow in suidperl (sperl), Perl 4.x and 5.x. | [email protected] | 7.2 | 0.35% | 1997-05-29 | 2026-04-16 |