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Perl Denial of Service Vulnerability (Windows)
Information
Severity
Severity
Family
Family
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
Solution Type
Solution Type
Created
Created
Modified
Modified
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.
Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE)
References
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