KLA10053 DoS vulnerability in ActivePerl

Detect date:

12/31/2004

Severity:

Critical

Description:

An integer overflow vulnerability was found in ActivePerl. By exploiting this vulnerability malicious users can cause denial of service or execute arbitrary code. This vulnerability can be exploited at a point related to the duplication operator via a large multiplier.

Affected products:

Activestate ActivePerl 5 versions 5.8.3 and earlier

Solution:

Update to latest version

Original advisories:

vulnerability description

Impacts:

ACE

Related products:

ActivePerl

CVE-IDS:

CVE-2004-22867.5Critical