Vulnerability Report

CVE-2014-4330

Title: Perl Memory Corruption

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2014-4330.

CWE Category CWE-119
Published Date Sep 30, 2014
Modified Date Jun 17, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 2.1 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
0.55%

Vulnerability Summary

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.

Impacted Vendors

L
larry_wall 1
D
data_dumper_project 1
P
perl 1

Reference Links

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 http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Sep/84 http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q3/692 http://secunia.com/advisories/61441 http://secunia.com/advisories/61961 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 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 http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Sep/84 http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q3/692 http://secunia.com/advisories/61441 http://secunia.com/advisories/61961 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
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity LOW
2.1
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2014-4330 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A
Complexity N/A
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.