CVE-2011-0761 Information

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.

Reference

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