CVE-2014-4330
perl-Data-Dumper: deep recursion stack overflow
Severity
LowRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 2.0
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Published · September 18, 2014
Updated · November 21, 2025
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.
CVSS score applicability
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Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 2.0 · 2.6AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
CWE-674 · Uncontrolled Recursion