CVE-2015-7686

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.

Score

CVSS 2.0 7.8 High

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2015-10-06

Last modified

2024-08-06

Weaknesses

CWE-20, CWE-399

Affected products

• Email-address (Email-address Project)

References

• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/09/27/1
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/10/02/13
• https://forum.bestpractical.com/t/security-vulnerabilities-in-rt-2017-06-15/32016