Vulnerability Report

CVE-2011-2728

Title: Perl Denial of Service (DoS)

DoS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2011-2728.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo
Published Date Dec 21, 2012
Modified Date Jun 16, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 4.3 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
1.40%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2011-2728: The bsd_glob function in the File::Glob module for Perl before 5.14.2 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a glob expression with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag, which triggers an uninitialized pointer dereference.

Impacted Vendors

P
perl 1
L
larry_wall 1

Reference Links

http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/FLORA/perl-5.14.2/pod/perldelta.pod http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-November/069752.html http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commit/1af4051e077438976a4c12a0622feaf6715bec77 http://secunia.com/advisories/46172 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/49858 https://blogs.oracle.com/sunsecurity/entry/cve_2011_2728_denial_of1 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=742987 http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/FLORA/perl-5.14.2/pod/perldelta.pod http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-November/069752.html http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commit/1af4051e077438976a4c12a0622feaf6715bec77 http://secunia.com/advisories/46172 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/49858 https://blogs.oracle.com/sunsecurity/entry/cve_2011_2728_denial_of1 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=742987
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity MEDIUM
4.3
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2011-2728 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

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:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.