CPANSA-File-Glob-2011-2728: perl vulnerability

Publisher giterlizzi Document category csaf_security_advisory
Initial release date 2012-12-21T00:00:00 Engine CSAF Perl Toolkit 0.25
Current release date 2012-12-21T00:00:00 Build Date
Current version 1 Status final
CVSS v3.1 Base Score Severity
Original language Language en
Also referred to

Vulnerability Description

The bsd_glob function in the File::Glob module for Perl before 5.14.2 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a glob expression with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag, which triggers an uninitialized pointer dereference.

Vulnerabilities

CVE-2011-2728

Vulnerability Description

The bsd_glob function in the File::Glob module for Perl before 5.14.2 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a glob expression with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag, which triggers an uninitialized pointer dereference.

Product status

Known affected
Product Score
perl less than 1.13
CVSS Version CVSS Vector CVSS Base Score CVSS Base Severity
2.0 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P 4.3 Medium
Fixed

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References

Revision history

Version Date of the revision Summary of the revision
1 Fri Dec 21 00:00:00 2012 First release

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