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ActiveState Perl and Perl for cygwin are both reported to be prone to a buffer overflow vulnerability. The issue is reported to exist due to a lack of sufficient bounds checking that is performed on data that is passed to a Perl system() function call. This vulnerability may permit an attacker to influence execution flow of a vulnerable Perl script to ultimately execute arbitrary code. Arbitrary code execution will occur in the context of the user who is running the malicious Perl script.

ActiveState Perl and Perl for cygwin are both reported to be prone to a buffer overflow vulnerability. The issue is reported to exist due to a lack of sufficient bounds checking that is performed on data that is passed to a Perl system() function call. This vulnerability may permit an attacker to influence execution flow of a vulnerable Perl script to ultimately execute arbitrary code. Arbitrary code execution will occur in the context of the user who is running the malicious Perl script.