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.
Published: 2014-09-30
Score: 2.1 Low
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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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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Data Dumper Project Data Dumper
Perl Perl
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T11:12:34.783Z

Reserved: 2014-06-18T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2014-4330

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2014-09-30T16:55:06.543

Modified: 2026-05-06T22:30:45.220

Link: CVE-2014-4330

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2014-09-18T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2014-4330 - Bugzilla

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