Uncontrolled Recursion Affecting perl-libs package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.12% (31st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL6-PERLLIBS-1337555
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed18 Sept 2014

Introduced: 18 Sep 2014

CVE-2014-4330  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-674  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:6 perl-libs.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream perl-libs package and not the perl-libs package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:6 relevant fixed versions and status.

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 Base Scores

version 3.1