CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2011-0761

Published: May 13, 2011 | Modified: Oct 09, 2018
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
5 LOW
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
LOW

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 Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Perl Perl 5.10.0 (including) 5.10.0 (including)
Perl Perl 5.10.0-rc1 (including) 5.10.0-rc1 (including)
Perl Perl 5.10.0-rc2 (including) 5.10.0-rc2 (including)
Perl Perl 5.10.1 (including) 5.10.1 (including)
Perl Perl 5.10.1-rc1 (including) 5.10.1-rc1 (including)
Perl Perl 5.10.1-rc2 (including) 5.10.1-rc2 (including)
Perl Ubuntu dapper *
Perl Ubuntu hardy *
Perl Ubuntu lucid *
Perl Ubuntu maverick *
Perl Ubuntu natty *
Perl Ubuntu upstream *

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