CVE-2015-7686
EPSS 0.41%
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.
How to fix CVE-2015-7686
To remediate CVE-2015-7686, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Debian/libemail-address-perl—upgrade to 1.912-1 or later
Is CVE-2015-7686 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.4%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (1)
- from 0, < 1.912-1