National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2011-0761

Overview

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

Per: http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/476.html 'CWE-476: NULL Pointer Dereference'

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

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External Source: XF

Name: perl-functions-dos(67355)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/67355

External Source: MISC

Name: http://www.toucan-system.com/advisories/tssa-2011-03.txt

Hyperlink:http://www.toucan-system.com/advisories/tssa-2011-03.txt

External Source: BID

Name: 47766

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/47766

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20110509 TSSA-2011-03 - Perl : multiple functions null pointer dereference uppon parameters injection

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/517916/100/0/threaded

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1025507

Hyperlink:http://securitytracker.com/id?1025507

External Source: SREASON

Name: 8248

Hyperlink:http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8248