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CVE-2011-0761

CVE information

Published

12 years ago

Last Modified

5 years ago

CVSSv2.0 Severity

Medium

Impact Analysis

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..

CVSSv2.0 Score

Severity
Medium
Base Score
5/10
Exploit Score
10/10
Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication Required
None
Impact Score
2.9/10
Confidentiality Impact
None
Availability Impact
Partial
Integrity Impact
None

Products Affected

CPE Affected Vulnerable Excluding Edit
cpe:2.3:a:perl:perl:5.10.0:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:perl:perl:5.10.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:perl:perl:5.10.1:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:perl:perl:5.10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:perl:perl:5.10.0:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:perl:perl:5.10.1:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -