CPANSA-Email-Address-2014-4720: Email-Address vulnerability

Publisher giterlizzi Document category csaf_security_advisory
Initial release date 2014-07-06T00:00:00 Engine CSAF Perl Toolkit 0.25
Current release date 2014-07-06T00:00:00 Build Date
Current version 1 Status final
CVSS v3.1 Base Score Severity
Original language Language en
Also referred to

Vulnerability Description

Email::Address module before 1.904 for Perl uses an inefficient regular expression, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via vectors related to "backtracking into the phrase," a different vulnerability than CVE-2014-0477.

Vulnerabilities

CVE-2014-4720

Vulnerability Description

Email::Address module before 1.904 for Perl uses an inefficient regular expression, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via vectors related to "backtracking into the phrase," a different vulnerability than CVE-2014-0477.

Product status

Known affected
Product Score
Email-Address less than 1.904
CVSS Version CVSS Vector CVSS Base Score CVSS Base Severity
2.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P 5.0 Medium
Fixed

giterlizzi

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References

Revision history

Version Date of the revision Summary of the revision
1 Sun Jul 6 00:00:00 2014 First release

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