CVE-2014-4330

perl-Data-Dumper: deep recursion stack overflow

Published Sep 30, 2014 CVSS 2.0 · 2.1 Low EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
Description
The Dumper method in Data::Dumper before 2.154, as used in Perl 5.20.1 and earlier, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (stack consumption and crash) via an Array-Reference with many nested Array-References, which triggers a large number of recursive calls to the DD_dump function.

Remediation

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Advisories

Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2014-4257 The Dumper method in Data::Dumper before 2.154, as used in Perl 5.20.1 and earlier, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (stack consumption and crash) via an Array-Reference with many nested Array-References, which triggers a large number of recursive calls to the DD_dump function.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-2916-1 Perl vulnerabilities
History
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{'score': 0.0009}

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{'score': 0.001}

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{'score': 0.00102}

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{'score': 0.0009}

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Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
mitre
Published
Updated
Aug 6, 2024, 11:12 AM
Reserved
Jun 18, 2014, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Sep 30, 2014, 4:55 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 12:09 AM
Severity
Low
Public date
Sep 18, 2014, 12:00 AM