Algorithmic complexity vulnerability in Address.pm in the Email-Address module: Denial of Service via Crafted String

CVE-2015-7686 · HIGH Severity

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

Algorithmic complexity vulnerability in Address.pm in the Email-Address module 1.908 and earlier for Perl allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a crafted string containing a list of e-mail addresses in conjunction with parenthesis characters that can be associated with nested comments. NOTE: the default configuration in 1.908 mitigates this vulnerability but misparses certain realistic comments.

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