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

EPSS: 0.006 (43.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

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