CVE-2014-4720 Information

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.

Reference

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q2/563 https://github.com/rjbs/Email-Address/blob/master/Changes