CVE-2014-4330
Perl Data::Dumper Denial of Service Vulnerability
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.
INFO
Published Date :
Sept. 30, 2014, 4:55 p.m.
Last Modified :
April 12, 2025, 10:46 a.m.
Source :
[email protected]
Remotely Exploitable :
No
Impact Score :
2.9
Exploitability Score :
3.9
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CVE-2014-4330 vulnerability over time.
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CVE Modified by af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Nov. 21, 2024
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Reference http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0406.html Added Reference http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-September/139441.html Added Reference http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/128422/Perl-5.20.1-Deep-Recursion-Stack-Overflow.html Added Reference http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Sep/84 Added Reference http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q3/692 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/61441 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/61961 Added Reference http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:136 Added Reference http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/09/msg220118.html Added Reference http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/533543/100/0/threaded Added Reference http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70142 Added Reference http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2916-1 Added Reference https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/96216 Added Reference https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05240731 Added Reference https://metacpan.org/pod/distribution/Data-Dumper/Changes Added Reference https://www.lsexperts.de/advisories/lse-2014-06-10.txt -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
May. 14, 2024
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CVE Modified by [email protected]
Oct. 09, 2018
Action Type Old Value New Value Removed Reference http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/533543/100/0/threaded [Exploit] Added Reference http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/533543/100/0/threaded [No Types Assigned] -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
Aug. 29, 2017
Action Type Old Value New Value Removed Reference http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/96216 [No Types Assigned] Added Reference https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/96216 [No Types Assigned] -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
Dec. 03, 2016
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Reference http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2916-1 [No Types Assigned] -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
Aug. 24, 2016
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Reference https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05240731 -
Modified Analysis by [email protected]
May. 06, 2016
Action Type Old Value New Value Changed CPE Configuration Configuration 1 OR *cpe:2.3:a:perl:perl:5.14.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* (and previous) Configuration 2 OR *cpe:2.3:a:data_dumper_project:data_dumper:2.151:*:*:*:*:*:*:* (and previous) Configuration 1 OR *cpe:2.3:a:perl:perl:5.20.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* (and previous) Configuration 2 OR *cpe:2.3:a:data_dumper_project:data_dumper:2.151:*:*:*:*:*:*:* (and previous) -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
Apr. 15, 2015
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Reference http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0406.html Added Reference http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:136 -
Initial Analysis by [email protected]
Oct. 02, 2014
Action Type Old Value New Value
CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration
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Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
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Exploit Prediction
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0.10 }} 0.03%
score
0.25299
percentile