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Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2011-0761

🗓️ 03 Mar 2025 00:00:00Reported by TenableType 
nessus
 nessus
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Vulnerability CVE-2011-0761 affects unpatched Linux/Unix packages, allowing denial of service attacks.

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#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80900
##
# (C) Tenable, Inc.
##

include('compat.inc');

if (description)
{
  script_id(217330);
  script_version("1.2");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2025/09/04");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2011-0761");

  script_name(english:"Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2011-0761");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed with a vulnerability that the vendor indicates will not be
patched.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied
patch available.

  - 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. (CVE-2011-0761)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2011-0761");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"There is no known solution at this time.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"agent", value:"unix");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
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  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vendor_unpatched", value:"true");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2011/05/03");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2025/03/03");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
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  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-Module-Load");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-Module-Load-Conditional");
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}

if (!get_kb_item("global_settings/vendor_unpatched")) exit(0, "Unpatched Vulnerabilities Detection not active.");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (empty_or_null(get_one_kb_item("Host/RedHat/rpm-list"))) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);

include('linux_unpatched.inc');

var distro_constraints_array = {
  "Red Hat Enterprise Linux-6": {
    "package_manager": "rpm-list",
    "constraints": [
      {
        "release": "6",
        "pkgs": [
          {"reference": "perl"},
          {"reference": "perl-Archive-Extract"},
          {"reference": "perl-Archive-Tar"},
          {"reference": "perl-CGI"},
          {"reference": "perl-CPAN"},
          {"reference": "perl-CPANPLUS"},
          {"reference": "perl-Compress-Raw-Bzip2"},
          {"reference": "perl-Compress-Raw-Zlib"},
          {"reference": "perl-Compress-Zlib"},
          {"reference": "perl-Digest-SHA"},
          {"reference": "perl-ExtUtils-CBuilder"},
          {"reference": "perl-ExtUtils-Embed"},
          {"reference": "perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker"},
          {"reference": "perl-ExtUtils-ParseXS"},
          {"reference": "perl-File-Fetch"},
          {"reference": "perl-IO-Compress-Base"},
          {"reference": "perl-IO-Compress-Bzip2"},
          {"reference": "perl-IO-Compress-Zlib"},
          {"reference": "perl-IO-Zlib"},
          {"reference": "perl-IPC-Cmd"},
          {"reference": "perl-Locale-Maketext-Simple"},
          {"reference": "perl-Log-Message"},
          {"reference": "perl-Log-Message-Simple"},
          {"reference": "perl-Module-Build"},
          {"reference": "perl-Module-CoreList"},
          {"reference": "perl-Module-Load"},
          {"reference": "perl-Module-Load-Conditional"},
          {"reference": "perl-Module-Loaded"},
          {"reference": "perl-Module-Pluggable"},
          {"reference": "perl-Object-Accessor"},
          {"reference": "perl-Package-Constants"},
          {"reference": "perl-Params-Check"},
          {"reference": "perl-Parse-CPAN-Meta"},
          {"reference": "perl-Pod-Escapes"},
          {"reference": "perl-Pod-Simple"},
          {"reference": "perl-Term-UI"},
          {"reference": "perl-Test-Harness"},
          {"reference": "perl-Test-Simple"},
          {"reference": "perl-Time-HiRes"},
          {"reference": "perl-Time-Piece"},
          {"reference": "perl-core"},
          {"reference": "perl-devel"},
          {"reference": "perl-libs"},
          {"reference": "perl-parent"},
          {"reference": "perl-suidperl"},
          {"reference": "perl-version"}
        ]
      }
    ]
  }
};

var distro_constraints_values = linux_unpatched::get_distro_constraints(distro_constraints_arr:distro_constraints_array);
if (empty_or_null(distro_constraints_values)) audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, 'affected');
var report = linux_unpatched::check_unpatched_constraints(distro_constraints_values:distro_constraints_values);

if (!empty_or_null(report))
{
  security_report_v4(
      port       : 0,
      severity   : SECURITY_WARNING,
      extra      : report
  );
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, 'affected');
}

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