{"id":"MGASA-2014-0405","summary":"Updated perl package fixes CVE-2014-4330","details":"Updated perl package fixes security vulnerability:\n\nThe Dumper method in Data::Dumper before 2.154, as used in Perl 5.20.1 and\nearlier, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service\n(stack consumption and crash) via an Array-Reference with many nested\nArray-References, which triggers a large number of recursive calls to the\nDD_dump function (CVE-2014-4330).\n\nThe Data::Dumper module bundled with Perl has been updated to fix these\nissues.\n","modified":"2026-04-16T06:24:24.437489320Z","published":"2014-10-09T14:06:16Z","upstream":["CVE-2014-4330"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0405.html"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14170"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://www.lsexperts.de/advisories/lse-2014-06-10.txt"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-September/139441.html"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"perl","ecosystem":"Mageia:3","purl":"pkg:rpm/mageia/perl?arch=source&distro=mageia-3"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"5.16.3-1.2.mga3"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{"section":"core"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0405.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","credits":[{"name":"Mageia","contact":["https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Packages_Security_Team"],"type":"COORDINATOR"}]}