Denial of Service Vulnerability in Perl 5.10.x

CVE-2011-0761 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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.

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