debian · CVE-2014-4720

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Priority: not yet assigned Published: Updated: Sat, 11 Jul 2026 14:01:09 GMT

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CVE-2014-4720 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (libemail-address-perl), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5.

Description:

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.

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