CVE-2014-4720

Published: Jul 6, 2014Modified: May 6, 2026

5.0

Vector

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

Exploitability: 10.0 / Impact: 2.9

Source: NVD

Description

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.

Affected (35)

Products: Email\: \

Email\

1 product

Configuration A

35 vulnerable

Vulnerable Software	Affected Versions
Email\ \	Up to 1.903
Email\ \	Version address_module_project email\
Email\ \	Version address_module_project email\
Email\ \	Version address_module_project email\
Email\ \	Version address_module_project email\
Email\ \	Version address_module_project email\
Email\ \	Version address_module_project email\
Email\ \	Version address_module_project email\
Email\ \	Version address_module_project email\
Email\ \	Version address_module_project email\
Email\ \	Version address_module_project email\
Email\ \	Version address_module_project email\
Email\ \	Version address_module_project email\
Email\ \	Version address_module_project email\
Email\ \	Version address_module_project email\
Email\ \	Version address_module_project email\
Email\ \	Version address_module_project email\
Email\ \	Version address_module_project email\
Email\ \	Version address_module_project email\
Email\ \	Version address_module_project email\
Email\ \	Version address_module_project email\
Email\ \	Version address_module_project email\
Email\ \	Version address_module_project email\
Email\ \	Version address_module_project email\
Email\ \	Version address_module_project email\
Email\ \	Version address_module_project email\
Email\ \	Version address_module_project email\
Email\ \	Version address_module_project email\
Email\ \	Version address_module_project email\
Email\ \	Version address_module_project email\
Email\ \	Version address_module_project email\
Email\ \	Version address_module_project email\
Email\ \	Version address_module_project email\
Email\ \	Version address_module_project email\
Email\ \	Version address_module_project email\

References (4)

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q2/563

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://github.com/rjbs/Email-Address/blob/master/Changes

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q2/563

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

https://github.com/rjbs/Email-Address/blob/master/Changes

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

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