CVE-2014-4720 (GCVE-0-2014-4720)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2014-07-06 23:00
Modified
2024-09-16 22:56
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- n/a
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.
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