CVE-2012-1588 Information

Description

Algorithmic complexity vulnerability in the _filter_url function in the text filtering system (modules/filter/filter.module) in Drupal 7.x before 7.14 allows remote authenticated users with certain roles to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a long email address.

Reference

http://drupal.org/drupal-7.14 http://drupal.org/node/1557938 http://drupal.org/node/1558468 http://drupalcode.org/project/drupal.git/commit/db79496ae983447506f016a20738c3d7e5d059fa http://secunia.com/advisories/49012 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:074 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53368 Algorithmic complexity vulnerability in the _filter_url function in the text filtering system (modules/filter/filter.module) in Drupal 7.x before 7.14 allows remote authenticated users with certain roles to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a long email address.