VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2011-2728

CVSS score4.3 MEDIUM
EPSS probability1.39%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2012-12-21
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Description

The bsd_glob function in the File::Glob module for Perl before 5.14.2 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a glob expression with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag, which triggers an uninitialized pointer dereference.

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