Upon entering the End in creative mode, the Ender Dragon will try to attack the player instead of acting neutral as other mobs do with creative players present. It's easy to see when the dragon attacks you by shooting ender charges/fire balls. The fact that a dragon charges at you may be easier to reproduce in the Overworld, but I'm not sure.
To reproduce:
Go to the End.
Destroy an end crystal.
Wait and see if the Ender Dragon shoots an ender charge. If you hear it shoot, wait and see the charge was shot directly at your player position.
Note: With MC-84095 not being fixed, this can be much harder to reproduce.
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Can confirm for 12w50a and 1.4.5.
Has been around for a while. Pretty annoying if building in the End.
Half of me wants to say that this works as intended and the other half wants to say that it's a really annoying bug. Either way, I have a feeling that Mojang is familiar with this behavior, so it probably works as intended.
Is this still a concern in the latest Minecraft version 14w05b? If so, please update the affected versions in order to best aid Mojang ensuring bugs are still valid in the latest releases/pre-releases.
This is not a bug. You have to experiment with world difficulty, and you have to practice fighting the Ender Dragon before opening your world to others allowing cheats. If you do not have knowledge on how to defeat the Ender Dragon attacking you, you would likely die and have to leave your world to disconnect other players.
@unknown, made an issue for it (MC-144685).
Confirmed for 12w49a, 1w50a