CVE-2014-4720 (GCVE-0-2014-4720)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2014-07-06 23:00 – Updated: 2024-09-16 22:56
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
References
URL Tags
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q2/563 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://github.com/rjbs/Email-Address/blob/master… x_refsource_CONFIRM
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