CVE-2011-0761: Perl

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 8.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Perl Perl: version 5.10.0 only; version 5.10.1 only

Published 2011-05-13. Last modified 2026-06-16.