PT-2014-5814 · Perl+3 · Perl 5+4

Published 2014-09-30 · Updated 2018-10-09 · CVE-2014-4330

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

2.1

Low

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Data::Dumper versions prior to 2.154 Perl 5 versions prior to 5.20.1

Description The issue allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in stack consumption and crash, by utilizing an Array-Reference with many nested Array-References. This triggers a large number of recursive calls to the DD dump function.

Recommendations For Data::Dumper versions prior to 2.154, update to version 2.154 or later to resolve the issue. For Perl 5 versions prior to 5.20.1, update to version 5.20.1 or later to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

DoS

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2015-1879

CVE-2014-4330

MGASA-2014-0405

MGASA-2014-0406

MGASA-2014-0407

SUSE-RU-2015:0562-1

SUSE-SU-2014_1321-1

USN-2916-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Data::Dumper

Perl 5

Suse

Ubuntu

References · 49

• 🔥 https://lsexperts.de/advisories/lse-2014-06-10.txt · Exploit
• 🔥 http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q3/692 · Exploit
• 🔥 http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Sep/84 · Exploit
• 🔥 http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/128422/Perl-5.20.1-Deep-Recursion-Stack-Overflow.html · Exploit
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-4330 · Vendor Advisory
• http://ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2916-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-4330 · Security Note
• https://errata.altlinux.org/ALT-PU-2015-1879 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-4330 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2014-4330 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2013-7422 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-2381 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2014-0405 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2014-4330 · Vendor Advisory
• http://mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:136 · Vendor Advisory