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CVE-2011-0761

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2011-0761 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Perl 5.10.x, allowing attackers to crash applications via a NULL pointer dereference. This low-severity vulnerability (CVSS 5.0) can be triggered remotely without authentication by injecting arguments into specific Perl function calls. While no active exploitation is reported and community discussion is minimal, public exploit code exists, indicating a potential for exploitation.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
5.10.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:perl:perl:5.10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.10.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:perl:perl:5.10.0:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.10.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:perl:perl:5.10.0:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.10.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:perl:perl:5.10.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.10.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:perl:perl:5.10.1:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
8.75%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
94.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-35725 · May 3, 2011
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0875 is in the 93rd percentile among its peer group of 23,684 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (1)

redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: perl

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2011-0761Low

perl: NULL pointer dereference via crafted SOCKET, DIRHANDLE or FILEHANDLE value

May 3, 2011

References

securityreason.com / securityalert/8248
securitytracker.com / id
Exploit
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/67355
securityfocus.com / archive/1/517916/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/47766
Exploit
toucan-system.com / advisories/tssa-2011-03.txt
Exploit