The host is installed with Perl and is prone to denial of service vulnerability.

Successful exploitation will allow attackers to cause an affected application to crash, denying service to legitimate users. Impact Level: Application

Upgrade to Perl version 5.12 or later. For updates refer to http://www.perl.org/get.html

The flaw is due to an error in 'getpeername', 'readdir', 'closedir', 'getsockname', 'rewinddir', 'tell', or 'telldir' function calls. When given a wrong number of arguments, those functions will attempt to perform a comparison between an unallocated memory zone and a given register, resulting in a segmentation fault.

Perl versions 5.10 and 5.10.1 on Windows.

• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/517916/100/0/threaded
• http://www.toucan-system.com/advisories/tssa-2011-03.txt
• http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/67355

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Updated on 2015-03-25