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An attacker could use this issue to cause\nPerl to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute\narbitrary code. (CVE-2013-7422)\n\nMarkus Vervier discovered that Perl incorrectly handled nesting in the\nData::Dumper module. An attacker could use this issue to cause Perl to\nconsume memory and crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2014-4330)\n\nStephane Chazelas discovered that Perl incorrectly handled duplicate\nenvironment variables. An attacker could possibly use this issue to bypass\nthe taint protection mechanism. (CVE-2016-2381)\n","status":"published","published":"2016-03-02T13:37:19Z","modified":"2026-04-22T09:21:33.388938Z","updated_at":"2026-11-02T16:58:10.303275Z"}]}}