Vulnerabilities > Larry Wall > Perl > 5.8.4
| DATE | CVE | VULNERABILITY TITLE | RISK |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007-11-07 | CVE-2007-5116 | Improper Restriction of Operations Within the Bounds of A Memory Buffer vulnerability in multiple products 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. | 7.5 |
| 2005-12-16 | CVE-2005-4278 | Packages Insecure RUNPATH vulnerability in Gentoo Linux 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. | 7.2 |
| 2005-05-02 | CVE-2005-0448 | Local Race Condition Privilege Escalation vulnerability in Perl 'rmdir()' 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. | 1.2 |
| 2004-12-21 | CVE-2004-0452 | Local Race Condition vulnerability in Perl RMTree 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. | 2.6 |