CVE-2014-0477

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.

References

https://metacpan.org/release/RJBS/Email-Address-1.905

https://github.com/rjbs/Email-Address/blob/master/Changes

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1110723

http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2969

http://secunia.com/advisories/61981

http://secunia.com/advisories/59333

http://secunia.com/advisories/59212

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q2/563

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3