CPANSA-perl-2011-0761: perl vulnerability

Publisher giterlizzi Document category csaf_security_advisory
Initial release date 2011-05-13T00:00:00 Engine CSAF Perl Toolkit 0.25
Current release date 2011-05-13T00:00:00 Build Date
Current version 1 Status final
CVSS v3.1 Base Score Severity
Original language Language en
Also referred to

Vulnerability 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.

Vulnerabilities

CVE-2011-0761

Vulnerability 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.

Product status

Known affected
Product Score
perl greater than or equal 5.10.0 and less than 5.12.0
CVSS Version CVSS Vector CVSS Base Score CVSS Base Severity
2.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P 5.0 Medium
Fixed

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References

Revision history

Version Date of the revision Summary of the revision
1 Fri May 13 00:00:00 2011 First release

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