QID 375696

Date Published: 2021-07-28

QID 375696: Stack-based buffer overflow Vulnerability in Active And Strawberry Perl

ActivePerl is a Perl distribution and Strawberry Perl is a perl environment for MS Windows containing all you need to run and develop perl applications.

Affected Versions:
Perl before 5.24.3-RC1 and 5.26.x before 5.26.1-RC1

Windows allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long environment variable.

CVSS V3 rated as Critical - 9.8 severity.

CVSS V2 rated as High - 7.5 severity.

Solution

Customers are advised to install the latest Strawberry Perl latest ActivePerlversions to remediate this vulnerability.

Vendor References

PERL5.24.3 - perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/log/refs/tags/v5.24.3-RC1
PERL5.26.1 - perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/log/refs/tags/v5.26.1-RC1

CVEs related to QID 375696

CVE-2017-12814 |

Software Advisories

Advisory ID	Software	Component	Link
ActivePerl			www.activestate.com/products/perl/downloads/
StraberryPerl			strawberryperl.com/releases.html

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