MGASA-2014-0406

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    MGASA-2014-0406

    Published: 9 Oct 2014Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2014-4330

    Summary: Updated perl packages fix CVE-2014-4330

    Details: Updated perl package fixes security vulnerability: 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 (CVE-2014-4330). Also, the Text::Wrap version provided in perl contains a bug that can lead to a code path that shouldn't be hit. This can lead to crashes in other software, such as Bugzilla. The Text::Wrap module bundled with Perl has been patched and the Data::Dumper module bundled with Perl has been updated to fix these issues.

    References: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0406.html, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14170, https://www.lsexperts.de/advisories/lse-2014-06-10.txt, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-September/139441.html, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14098

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: perl

    Purl: pkg:rpm/mageia/perl?arch=source&distro=mageia-4

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -5.18.1-3.2.mga4

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
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    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High