8248Third-party advisory
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8248 CVE-2011-0761
Perl 5.10 - Multiple Null Pointer Dereference Denial of Service Vulnerabilities
Record summary
CVE-2011-0761 has a selected CVSS score of 5.0; EIP currently links 1 catalogued exploit.
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.
Description source: CVE List
Exploitation context
Available material
- Catalogued exploits
- 1
Proofs of concept
1Catalogued exploits
ExploitDBPerl 5.10 - Multiple Null Pointer Dereference Denial of Service VulnerabilitiesExploitDB exploitby Jonathan BrossardNot analyzed1 file
References
71025507vdb entry
http://securitytracker.com/id?1025507 20110509 TSSA-2011-03 - Perl : multiple functions null pointer dereference uppon parameters injectionmailing list
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/517916/100/0/threaded 47766vdb entry
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/47766 toucan-system.com
http://www.toucan-system.com/advisories/tssa-2011-03.txt perl-functions-dos(67355)vdb entry
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/67355 nvd.nist.gov
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-0761