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CVE-2011-0761 (GCVE-0-2011-0761)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2011-05-13 17:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 22:05
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://www.toucan-system.com/advisories/tssa-2011… x_refsource_MISC
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8248 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASON
http://securitytracker.com/id?1025507 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/47766 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/517916/100… mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
Date Public
2011-05-09 00:00
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