Vulnerability in Perl

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.

EPSS: 0.014 (69.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • Perl — versions 1.00, 1.01, 1.20
  • N/a — versions n/a

References