Description
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.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
n/a n/a
n/aaffected
References
- https://metacpan.org/release/RJBS/Email-Address-1.905 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59333 ↗
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q2/563 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/61981 ↗
- https://github.com/rjbs/Email-Address/commit/83f8306117115729ac9346523762c0c396251eb5 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59212 ↗
- https://github.com/rjbs/Email-Address/blob/master/Changes ↗
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1110723 ↗
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2969 ↗