PT-2014-6073 · Perl · Email::Address

Published 2014-07-06 · Updated 2014-09-26 · CVE-2014-4720

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Email::Address module versions prior to 1.904

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service due to CPU consumption. This is achieved through vectors related to backtracking into the phrase, which is caused by an inefficient regular expression used in the Email::Address module.

Recommendations For versions prior to 1.904, update to version 1.904 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2014-4720

DSA-2969-1

MGASA-2014-0389

Affected Products

Email::Address

References · 13

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2014-0389 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-4720 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-4720 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-4720 · Security Note
• https://debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2969 · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0389.html · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2014-4720 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-4720 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2014-4720 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2014-4720 · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/rjbs/Email-Address/blob/master/Changes · Note
• http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q2/563 · Note
• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13541 · Note