CVEvulnerability

CVE-2011-0761

5.0 MEDIUM Published 2011-05-13 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗

Status: Modified
Published: 2011-05-13
Last modified: 2026-06-16
Assigner: [email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected]): 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Description

Perl 5.10.x allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) by leveraging an ability to inject arguments into a (1) getpeername, (2) readdir, (3) closedir, (4) getsockname, (5) rewinddir, (6) tell, or (7) telldir function call.

Affected configurations

• perl perl 5.10.0 • perl perl 5.10.1

References

http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8248 securityreason.com
http://securitytracker.com/id?1025507 Exploit
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/517916/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/47766 Exploit
http://www.toucan-system.com/advisories/tssa-2011-03.txt Exploit
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/67355 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8248 securityreason.com
http://securitytracker.com/id?1025507 Exploit
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/517916/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/47766 Exploit
http://www.toucan-system.com/advisories/tssa-2011-03.txt Exploit
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/67355 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com