Security Advisories (2)
CVE-2014-4720 (2014-07-06)

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.

CVE-2014-0477 (2014-07-03)

Inefficient regular expression, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via an empty quoted string in an RFC 2822 address.

Changes for version 1.3 - 2004-08-15

  • name() was incorrectly fixing up a comment.

Modules

RFC 2822 Address Parsing and Creation