CVEvulnerability
CVE-2014-0477
5.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2014-07-03
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Description
The parse function in Email::Address module before 1.905 for Perl uses an inefficient regular expression, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via an empty quoted string in an RFC 2822 address.
Affected configurations
• email\ \ address module project (<= 1.904)
• email\ \ address module project
• fedoraproject fedora
References
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q2/563 seclists.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59212 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59333 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/61981 secunia.com
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2969 www.debian.org
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1110723 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://github.com/rjbs/Email-Address/blob/master/Changes github.com
- https://github.com/rjbs/Email-Address/commit/83f8306117115729ac9346523762c0c396251eb5 Exploit, Patch
- https://metacpan.org/release/RJBS/Email-Address-1.905 metacpan.org
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q2/563 seclists.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59212 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59333 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/61981 secunia.com
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2969 www.debian.org
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1110723 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://github.com/rjbs/Email-Address/blob/master/Changes github.com
- https://github.com/rjbs/Email-Address/commit/83f8306117115729ac9346523762c0c396251eb5 Exploit, Patch
- https://metacpan.org/release/RJBS/Email-Address-1.905 metacpan.org