U.S. flag   An official website of the United States government
Dot gov

Official websites use .gov
A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States.

Https

Secure .gov websites use HTTPS
A lock (Dot gov) or https:// means you've safely connected to the .gov website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites.

National Vulnerability Database

National Vulnerability Database

NVD

National Vulnerability Database
  1. Vulnerabilities

CVE-2014-4330 Detail

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.


Metrics

 
NVD enrichment efforts reference publicly available information to associate vector strings. CVSS information contributed by other sources is also displayed.
CVSS 4.0 Severity and Vector Strings:

NIST CVSS score
NIST: NVD
N/A
NVD assessment not yet provided.

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

By selecting these links, you will be leaving NIST webspace. We have provided these links to other web sites because they may have information that would be of interest to you. No inferences should be drawn on account of other sites being referenced, or not, from this page. There may be other web sites that are more appropriate for your purpose. NIST does not necessarily endorse the views expressed, or concur with the facts presented on these sites. Further, NIST does not endorse any commercial products that may be mentioned on these sites. Please address comments about this page to nvd@nist.gov.

Hyperlink Resource
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0406.html
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0406.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-September/139441.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-September/139441.html
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/128422/Perl-5.20.1-Deep-Recursion-Stack-Overflow.html Exploit 
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/128422/Perl-5.20.1-Deep-Recursion-Stack-Overflow.html Exploit 
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Sep/84 Exploit 
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Sep/84 Exploit 
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q3/692 Exploit 
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q3/692 Exploit 
http://secunia.com/advisories/61441
http://secunia.com/advisories/61441
http://secunia.com/advisories/61961
http://secunia.com/advisories/61961
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:136
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:136
http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/09/msg220118.html
http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/09/msg220118.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/533543/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/533543/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70142
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70142
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2916-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2916-1
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/96216
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/96216
https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05240731
https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05240731
https://metacpan.org/pod/distribution/Data-Dumper/Changes
https://metacpan.org/pod/distribution/Data-Dumper/Changes
https://www.lsexperts.de/advisories/lse-2014-06-10.txt Exploit 
https://www.lsexperts.de/advisories/lse-2014-06-10.txt Exploit 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer cwe source acceptance level NIST  

Known Affected Software Configurations Switch to CPE 2.2

CPEs loading, please wait.

Denotes Vulnerable Software
Are we missing a CPE here? Please let us know.

Change History

9 change records found show changes

Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2014-4330
NVD Published Date:
09/30/2014
NVD Last Modified:
11/20/2024
Source:
MITRE