VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2011-0761

CVSS score5 MEDIUM
EPSS probability8.88%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2011-05-13
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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.

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