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.
Published: 2011-05-13
Score: 5.0 Medium
EPSS: 3.4% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2011-0773 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.
History

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: certcc

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T22:05:53.460Z

Reserved: 2011-02-03T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2011-0761

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2011-05-13T17:05:41.847

Modified: 2026-04-29T01:13:23.040

Link: CVE-2011-0761

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2011-0761 - Bugzilla

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Weaknesses