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CVE-2014-0477

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.

Published

2014-07-03T17:55:05.937

Last Modified

2025-04-12T10:46:40.837

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv2: 5.0 (MEDIUM)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Access Vector: NETWORK
Access Complexity: LOW
Authentication: NONE
Confidentiality Impact: NONE
Integrity Impact: NONE
Availability Impact: PARTIAL

Exploitability Score

10.0

Impact Score

2.9

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
NVD-CWE-Other

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Application	email\	\	≤ 1.904	Yes
Application	email\	\	address_module_project	Yes
Application	email\	\	address_module_project	Yes
Application	email\	\	address_module_project	Yes
Application	email\	\	address_module_project	Yes
Application	email\	\	address_module_project	Yes
Application	email\	\	address_module_project	Yes
Application	email\	\	address_module_project	Yes
Application	email\	\	address_module_project	Yes
Application	email\	\	address_module_project	Yes
Application	email\	\	address_module_project	Yes
Application	email\	\	address_module_project	Yes
Application	email\	\	address_module_project	Yes
Application	email\	\	address_module_project	Yes
Application	email\	\	address_module_project	Yes
Application	email\	\	address_module_project	Yes
Application	email\	\	address_module_project	Yes
Application	email\	\	address_module_project	Yes
Application	email\	\	address_module_project	Yes
Application	email\	\	address_module_project	Yes
Application	email\	\	address_module_project	Yes
Application	email\	\	address_module_project	Yes
Application	email\	\	address_module_project	Yes
Application	email\	\	address_module_project	Yes
Application	email\	\	address_module_project	Yes
Application	email\	\	address_module_project	Yes
Application	email\	\	address_module_project	Yes
Application	email\	\	address_module_project	Yes
Application	email\	\	address_module_project	Yes
Application	email\	\	address_module_project	Yes
Application	email\	\	address_module_project	Yes
Application	email\	\	address_module_project	Yes
Application	email\	\	address_module_project	Yes
Application	email\	\	address_module_project	Yes
Application	email\	\	address_module_project	Yes
Application	email\	\	address_module_project	Yes
Operating System	fedoraproject	fedora	*	Yes

References

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q2/563 ([email protected])
http://secunia.com/advisories/59212 ([email protected])
http://secunia.com/advisories/59333 ([email protected])
http://secunia.com/advisories/61981 ([email protected])
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2969 ([email protected])
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1110723 ([email protected])
https://github.com/rjbs/Email-Address/blob/master/Changes ([email protected])
https://github.com/rjbs/Email-Address/commit/83f8306117115729ac9346523762c0c396251eb5 Exploit, Patch ([email protected])
https://metacpan.org/release/RJBS/Email-Address-1.905 ([email protected])
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q2/563 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://secunia.com/advisories/59212 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://secunia.com/advisories/59333 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://secunia.com/advisories/61981 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2969 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1110723 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://github.com/rjbs/Email-Address/blob/master/Changes (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://github.com/rjbs/Email-Address/commit/83f8306117115729ac9346523762c0c396251eb5 Exploit, Patch (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://metacpan.org/release/RJBS/Email-Address-1.905 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)