CVE-2014-0477
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
5.0
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.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| debian | bookworm | fixed | 1.905-1 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 1.905-1 |
| debian | forky | fixed | 1.905-1 |
| debian | sid | fixed | 1.905-1 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 1.905-1 |
| fedora | affected | |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| email\ | \ | {"endIncluding":"1.904"} | |
References
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q2/563
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59212
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59333
- http://secunia.com/advisories/61981
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2969
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1110723
- https://github.com/rjbs/Email-Address/blob/master/Changes
- https://github.com/rjbs/Email-Address/commit/83f8306117115729ac9346523762c0c396251eb5
- https://metacpan.org/release/RJBS/Email-Address-1.905
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-0477
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.