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Perl Denial of Service Vulnerability (Windows)
Information
Severity
Severity
Medium
Family
Family
Denial of Service
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
5.0
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Solution Type
Solution Type
Vendor Patch
Created
Created
12 years ago
Modified
Modified
5 years ago
Summary
The host is installed with Perl and is prone to denial of service vulnerability.
Insight
Insight
The flaw is due to an error in 'getpeername', 'readdir', 'closedir', 'getsockname', 'rewinddir', 'tell', or 'telldir' function calls. When given a wrong number of arguments, those functions will attempt to perform a comparison between an unallocated memory zone and a given register, resulting in a segmentation fault.
Affected Software
Affected Software
Perl versions 5.10 and 5.10.1 on Windows.
Solution
Solution
Upgrade to Perl version 5.12 or later.