CVE-2014-0477 Information

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.

Reference

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