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Fencer Vulns
high 7.2

CVE-1999-0034 json

Buffer overflow in suidperl (sperl), Perl 4.x and 5.x.

published 1997-05-29 29 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-1999-0034

cvss
7.2
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.2%
EPSS 1.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 67%
public exploits
4
Exploit-DB

Summary

Buffer overflow in suidperl (sperl), Perl 4.x and 5.x.

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-320)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

1.18% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 67% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-19547 BSD/OS 2.1/3.0 / Larry Wall Perl 5.0 03 / RedHat 4.0/4.1 / SGI Freeware 1.0/2.0 SUIDPerl - Local Overflow (2) local, 1997-04-17
  • EDB-19546 BSD/OS 2.1/3.0 / Larry Wall Perl 5.0 03 / RedHat 4.0/4.1 / SGI Freeware 1.0/2.0 SUIDPerl - Local Overflow (1) local, 1997-04-17
  • EDB-320 suid_perl 5.001 - Command Execution local, 1996-06-01
  • EDB-200 BSDi SUIDPerl - Local Stack Buffer Overflow local, 2000-11-21

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 7.2 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

References

Sources

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