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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.

Source:  MITRE
Description Last Modified:  09/30/2014

Impact

CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 2.1 LOW
Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P) (V2 legend)
Impact Subscore: 2.9
Exploitability Subscore: 3.9

Access Vector (AV): Local
Access Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (AU): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Partial
Additional Information:
Allows disruption of service

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Hyperlink Resource
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0406.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://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Sep/84 Exploit
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q3/692 Exploit
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.securityfocus.com/archive/1/533543/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70142
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2916-1
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/96216
https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05240731
https://metacpan.org/pod/distribution/Data-Dumper/Changes
https://www.lsexperts.de/advisories/lse-2014-06-10.txt Exploit

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2014-4330
NVD Published Date:
09/30/2014
NVD Last Modified:
10/09/2018