Vulnerability CVE-2015-7686


Published: 2015-10-05   Modified: 2015-10-06

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.

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
7.8/10
6.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Complete
Affected software
Email-address project -> Email-address 

 References:
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/09/27/1
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/10/02/13
https://forum.bestpractical.com/t/security-vulnerabilities-in-rt-2017-06-15/32016

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