Vulnerability CVE-2015-7686: Information

Description

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.

Severity: HIGH (7.8)

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

1. Affected configurations:

   1. Configuration 1

      cpe:2.3:a:email-address_project:email-address:*:*:*:*:*:perl:*:*

      End including

      1.908

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