CVE-2014-4720 The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libemail-address-perl  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1710-LIBEMAILADDRESSPERL-630688
  • published10 Sept 2020
  • disclosed6 Jul 2014

Introduced: 6 Jul 2014

CVE-2014-4720  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:17.10.

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 Ubuntu.

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.