CVE-2014-0477

EPSS 1.4%

libemail-address-perl - security update

Published: 7/3/2014Modified: 4/28/2026

Description

The parse function in Email::Address module before 1.905 for Perl uses an inefficient regular expression, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via an empty quoted string in an RFC 2822 address.

Affected packages (3)

Debian/libemail-address-perlfrom 0, < 1.905-1
Debian/libemail-address-perlfrom 0, < 1.889-2+deb6u1
Debian/libemail-address-perlfrom 0, < 1.895-1+deb7u1

References (1)

ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-0477