CVE-2011-2728 in Perl

Summary

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.

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• Reservation: 07/11/2011
• Disclosure: 12/21/2012
• Moderation: VulDB entry created
• Entries: 1: VDB-63227
• CPE: ready
• CWE: CWE-404 (Confirmed)
• CVSS: 5.3
• EPSS: 0.00545
• Activities: Very Low

Sources

• MITRE: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2011-2728
• NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-2728
• CVE Details: https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2011-2728/