perl-email-address: inefficient regular expressions could cause DoS (CVE-2014-0477 CVE-2014-4720)
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 (CVE-2014-0477).
References:
•MLIST:[oss-security] 20140618 CVE-2014-0477: Email::Address:
Denial-of-Service in Email::Address::parse
•URL: http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q2/563
•CONFIRM:
https://github.com/rjbs/Email-Address/commit/83f8306117115729ac9346523762c0c396251eb5
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” (CVE-2014-4720).
References:
•MLIST:[oss-security] 20140614 CVE-2014-0477: Email::Address:
Denial-of-Service in Email::Address::parse
•URL: http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q2/563
•CONFIRM: https://github.com/rjbs/Email-Address/blob/master/Changes
(from redmine: issue id 3190, created on 2014-07-18, closed on 2014-07-21)
- Relations:
- child #3191 (closed)
- child #3192 (closed)
- child #3193 (closed)
- child #3194 (closed)