{"id":"UBUNTU-CVE-2014-0477","details":"The parse function in Email::Address module before 1.905 for Perl uses an 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quoted string in an RFC 2822 address.","modified":"2025-07-16T07:31:38.516756Z","published":"2014-07-03T17:55:00Z","withdrawn":"2025-07-18T16:42:58Z","upstream":["CVE-2014-0477"],"references":[{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-0477"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q2/563"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-0477"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"libemail-address-perl","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:16.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/libemail-address-perl@1.905-2?arch=source&distro=xenial"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1.905-2"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{"binaries":[{"binary_version":"1.905-2","binary_name":"libemail-address-perl"}],"availability":"No subscription required"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2014/UBUNTU-CVE-2014-0477.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.3","severity":[{"type":"Ubuntu","score":"low"}]}