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CVE-2011-0761

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
13/05/2011
Last modified:
11/04/2025

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.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 5.00 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Physical

Base Score 2.0
5.00
Severity 2.0
MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:perl:perl:5.10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:perl:perl:5.10.0:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:perl:perl:5.10.0:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:perl:perl:5.10.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:perl:perl:5.10.1:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:perl:perl:5.10.1:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page


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