Aggregates CVE and security vulnerability intelligence across all larry_wall-related products, including CVSS, EPSS, publication dates, and vulnerability intelligence data.
Historical issues mainly involve vendor risk buffer overflow, vendor risk denial of service, and vendor risk integer handling and related problems; some flaws may lead to vendor impact application crash.
| 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 |