CVE-2011-0761

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 8.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2011-05-13 · updated 2026-06-16

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.

Affected products

perl: 5.10.0, 5.10.0-rc1, 5.10.0-rc2, 5.10.1, 5.10.1-rc1, 5.10.1-rc2

References

http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8248
http://securitytracker.com/id?1025507
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/517916/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/47766
http://www.toucan-system.com/advisories/tssa-2011-03.txt
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/67355
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8248
http://securitytracker.com/id?1025507
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/517916/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/47766
http://www.toucan-system.com/advisories/tssa-2011-03.txt
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/67355

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