CVE-2014-4720 Affecting libemail-address-perl package, versions <1.905-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.33% (72nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-LIBEMAILADDRESSPERL-278854
  • published6 Jul 2014
  • disclosed6 Jul 2014

Introduced: 6 Jul 2014

CVE-2014-4720  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:unstable libemail-address-perl to version 1.905-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libemail-address-perl package and not the libemail-address-perl package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:unstable relevant fixed versions and status.

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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