CVE-2011-2728

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-12-21 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The bsd_glob function in the File::Glob module for Perl before 5.14.2 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a glob expression with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag, which triggers an uninitialized pointer dereference.

Affected products

perl: through 5.14.1; 1.00, 1.01, 1.20, 1.21, 1.22, 1.31 (+134)

References

http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/FLORA/perl-5.14.2/pod/perldelta.pod
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-November/069752.html
http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commit/1af4051e077438976a4c12a0622feaf6715bec77
http://secunia.com/advisories/46172
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/49858
https://blogs.oracle.com/sunsecurity/entry/cve_2011_2728_denial_of1
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=742987
http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/FLORA/perl-5.14.2/pod/perldelta.pod
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-November/069752.html
http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commit/1af4051e077438976a4c12a0622feaf6715bec77
http://secunia.com/advisories/46172
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/49858

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