CVE-2015-7686

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Oct 3, 2015
Updated: Aug 6, 2024
Reserved: Oct 2, 2015

Description

Algorithmic complexity vulnerability in Address.pm in the Email-Address module 1.908 and earlier for Perl allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a crafted string containing a list of e-mail addresses in conjunction with parenthesis characters that can be associated with nested comments. NOTE: the default configuration in 1.908 mitigates this vulnerability but misparses certain realistic comments.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

https://forum.bestpractical.com/t/security-vulnerabilities-in-rt-2017-06-15/32016
[oss-security] 20151002 Re: DoS attack through Email-Address perl module v1.907 (CVE id request)mailing-list
[oss-security] 20150927 DoS attack through Email-Address perl module v1.907 (CVE id request)mailing-list

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