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.

Red Hat does not consider this problem to be a security issue. Input passed to these functions should be under the full control of the script author, therefore no trust boundary is crossed.

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