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.
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Affected Vendors & Products
Advisories
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Debian DLA |
DLA-987-1 | request-tracker4 security update |
Debian DSA |
DSA-3882-1 | request-tracker4 security update |
EUVD |
EUVD-2015-7588 | 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. |
Fixes
Solution
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Workaround
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History
Sun, 13 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-06T07:58:58.824Z
Reserved: 2015-10-02T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2015-7686
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Status : Deferred
Published: 2015-10-06T01:59:33.673
Modified: 2025-04-12T10:46:40.837
Link: CVE-2015-7686
OpenCVE Enrichment
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Debian DLA
Debian DSA
EUVD