Buffer overflow in Data Dumper Project
CVE-2014-4330
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.
Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 2.1 (Low). Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.006 (44.0th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 44th percentile — 44.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.006 · newest: 0.006 · change: 0.000
Affected products
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- packetstormsecurity.com/files/128422/Perl-5.20.1-Deep-Recursion-Stack-Overflow… (Exploit)
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/533543/100/0/threaded (mailing-list)
- secunia.com/advisories/61441 (third-party-advisory)
- lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-September/139441.html (vendor-advisory)
- www.mandriva.com/security/advisories (vendor-advisory)
- metacpan.org/pod/distribution/Data-Dumper/Changes
- www.lsexperts.de/advisories/lse-2014-06-10.txt (Exploit)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/70142 (vdb-entry)
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/96216 (vdb-entry)
- www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/09/msg220118.html (mailing-list)