UBUNTU-CVE-2015-7686

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Source

https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-7686

Import Source

https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2015/UBUNTU-CVE-2015-7686.json

JSON Data

https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2015-7686

Upstream

CVE-2015-7686

Published

2015-10-06T01:59:00Z

Modified

2025-10-24T04:45:28Z

Severity

Ubuntu - low

Summary

[none]

Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:16.04:LTS / libemail-address-perl

Package

Name: libemail-address-perl
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/libemail-address-perl@1.908-1?arch=source&distro=xenial

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

1.*

1.905-2

1.908-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "libemail-address-perl",
            "binary_version": "1.908-1"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source

"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2015/UBUNTU-CVE-2015-7686.json"

Ubuntu:18.04:LTS / libemail-address-perl