ActiveState ActivePerl 5.8.8.817 for Windows configures the site/lib directory with "Users" group permissions for changing files, which allows local users to gain privileges by creating a malicious sitecustomize.pl file in that directory. NOTE: The provenance of this information is unknown; the details are obtained solely from third party information.

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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.

activestate · larry_wall

Buffer overflow in PerlIS.dll in Activestate ActivePerl 5.6.1.629 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an HTTP request for a long filename that ends in a .pl extension.

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