Vulnerability Report

CVE-2011-0761

Title: Perl Memory Corruption

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

PoC Available for CVE-2011-0761

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo
Published Date May 13, 2011
Modified Date Jun 16, 2026
Exploit Status Available
Score 5.0 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
8.75%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2011-0761: 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.

Impacted Vendors

P
perl 1
L
larry_wall 1

Reference Links

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 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
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity MEDIUM
5.0
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2011-0761 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/35725
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MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A
Complexity N/A
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.