CVE-2014-4720

Medium

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.

SeverityMedium
CVSS5.0
Exploit probability—
Product\
PublishedJul 6, 2014
First seenJul 6, 2014

How to fix

Sources list no fixed version or patch link for this vulnerability.

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
email\ \address_module_project ≤ v ≤ 1.903, address_module_project—

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