CVE-2014-4720

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Jul 6, 2014
Updated: Sep 16, 2024
Reserved: Jul 3, 2014

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.

Scores

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

[oss-security] 20140614 CVE-2014-0477: Email::Address: Denial-of-Service in Email::Address::parsemailing-list
https://github.com/rjbs/Email-Address/blob/master/Changes

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