Denial of Service Vulnerability in Email::Address Module

CVE-2014-4720 · MEDIUM Severity

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

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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