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A vulnerability was found in Address.pm up to 1.908. It has been rated as problematic. Affected by this issue is an unknown functionality of the component Email-Address Module. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a input validation vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-20. The product receives input or data, but it does not validate or incorrectly validates that the input has the properties that are required to process the data safely and correctly. Impacted is availability. CVE summarizes:

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.

The weakness was shared 10/06/2015 (Website). The advisory is available at openwall.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2015-7686 since 10/02/2015. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 100827 (FreeBSD : rt and dependent modules -- multiple security vulnerabilities (7a92e958-5207-11e7-8d7c-6805ca0b3d42)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family FreeBSD Local Security Checks. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 176061 (Debian Security Update for request-tracker4 (DSA 3882-1)).

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (100827). The entries 102998, 103000, 103001 and 103002 are related to this item.

Productinfo

Name

• Address.pm

Version

• 1.908

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CVSSv3info

VulDB Meta Base Score: 5.3
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 5.3

VulDB Base Score: 5.3
VulDB Temp Score: 5.3
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Exploitinginfo

Class: Input validation
CWE: CWE-20
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Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Status: Not defined

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Nessus ID: 100827
Nessus Name: FreeBSD : rt and dependent modules -- multiple security vulnerabilities (7a92e958-5207-11e7-8d7c-6805ca0b3d42)
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OpenVAS ID: 703882
OpenVAS Name: Debian Security Advisory DSA 3882-1 (request-tracker4 - security update)
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Threat Intelligenceinfo

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: no mitigation known
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Timelineinfo

10/02/2015 🔍
10/05/2015 +3 days 🔍
10/06/2015 +1 days 🔍
10/06/2015 +0 days 🔍
06/20/2022 +2449 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: openwall.com
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2015-7686 (🔍)
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Entryinfo

Created: 10/06/2015 11:36
Updated: 06/20/2022 08:46
Changes: 10/06/2015 11:36 (41), 01/18/2018 07:52 (16), 06/20/2022 08:46 (3)
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