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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2015-7686: perl-Email-Address security update

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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2015-7686: perl-Email-Address security update

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
10/06/2015
Created
09/28/2020
Added
09/28/2020
Modified
09/28/2020

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.

Solution(s)

  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp3-upgrade-perl-email-address

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