CVE-2011-0761

Severity

50%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

48%

Per: http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/476.html 'CWE-476: NULL Pointer Dereference'

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.

Per: http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/476.html 'CWE-476: NULL Pointer Dereference'

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P).

Overview

Type

Perl

First reported 13 years ago

2011-05-13 17:05:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-10-09 19:29:00

Affected Software

Perl 5.10.0

5.10.0

Perl 5.10.0 Release Candidate 1

5.10.0

Perl 5.10.0 Release Candidate 2

5.10.0

Perl 5.10.1

5.10.1

Perl 5.10.1 Release Candidate 1

5.10.1

Perl 5.10.1 Release Candidate 2

5.10.1

References

8248

1025507

Exploit

20110509 TSSA-2011-03 - Perl : multiple functions null pointer dereference uppon parameters injection

47766

Exploit

http://www.toucan-system.com/advisories/tssa-2011-03.txt

Exploit

perl-functions-dos(67355)

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