CVE-2014-0477

Severity

50%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

48%

CWE-185: CWE-185: Incorrect Regular Expression

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.

CWE-185: CWE-185: Incorrect Regular Expression

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P).

Overview

First reported 10 years ago

2014-07-03 17:55:00

Last updated 9 years ago

2015-11-04 19:00:00

Affected Software

Email::Address module project Email::Address module for Perl 1.1

address_module_project

Email::Address module project Email::Address module for Perl 1.2

address_module_project

Email::Address module project Email::Address module for Perl 1.3

address_module_project

Email::Address module project Email::Address module for Perl 1.5

address_module_project

Email::Address module project Email::Address module for Perl 1.6

address_module_project

Email::Address module project Email::Address module for Perl 1.7

address_module_project

Email::Address module project Email::Address module for Perl 1.80

address_module_project

Email::Address module project Email::Address module for Perl 1.85

address_module_project

Email::Address module project Email::Address module for Perl 1.86

address_module_project

Email::Address module project Email::Address module for Perl 1.870

address_module_project

Email::Address module project Email::Address module for Perl 1.871

address_module_project

Email::Address module project Email::Address module for Perl 1.880

address_module_project

Email::Address module project Email::Address module for Perl 1.881

address_module_project

Email::Address module project Email::Address module for Perl 1.882

address_module_project

Email::Address module project Email::Address module for Perl 1.883

address_module_project

Email::Address module project Email::Address module for Perl 1.884

address_module_project

Email::Address module project Email::Address module for Perl 1.885

address_module_project

Email::Address module project Email::Address module for Perl 1.886

address_module_project

Email::Address module project Email::Address module for Perl 1.887

address_module_project

Email::Address module project Email::Address module for Perl 1.888

address_module_project

Email::Address module project Email::Address module for Perl 1.889

address_module_project

Email::Address module project Email::Address module for Perl 1.890

address_module_project

Email::Address module project Email::Address module for Perl 1.891

address_module_project

Email::Address module project Email::Address module for Perl 1.892

address_module_project

Email::Address module project Email::Address module for Perl 1.893

address_module_project

Email::Address module project Email::Address module for Perl 1.894

address_module_project

Email::Address module project Email::Address module for Perl 1.895

address_module_project

Email::Address module project Email::Address module for Perl 1.896

address_module_project

Email::Address module project Email::Address module for Perl 1.897

address_module_project

Email::Address module project Email::Address module for Perl 1.898

address_module_project

Email::Address module project Email::Address module for Perl 1.899

address_module_project

Email::Address module project Email::Address module for Perl 1.900

address_module_project

Email::Address module project Email::Address module for Perl 1.901

address_module_project

Email::Address module project Email::Address module for Perl 1.902

address_module_project

Email::Address module project Email::Address module for Perl 1.903

address_module_project

Fedora

References

[oss-security] 20140618 CVE-2014-0477: Email::Address: Denial-of-Service in Email::Address::parse

59212

59333

61981

DSA-2969

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

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

https://github.com/rjbs/Email-Address/commit/83f8306117115729ac9346523762c0c396251eb5

Exploit, Patch

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

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