{ "CVE_data_meta": { "ASSIGNER": "cve@mitre.org", "ID": "CVE-2015-7686", "STATE": "PUBLIC" }, "affects": { "vendor": { "vendor_data": [ { "product": { "product_data": [ { "product_name": "n/a", "version": { "version_data": [ { "version_value": "n/a" } ] } } ] }, "vendor_name": "n/a" } ] } }, "data_format": "MITRE", "data_type": "CVE", "data_version": "4.0", "description": { "description_data": [ { "lang": "eng", "value": "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." } ] }, "problemtype": { "problemtype_data": [ { "description": [ { "lang": "eng", "value": "n/a" } ] } ] }, "references": { "reference_data": [ { "name": "https://forum.bestpractical.com/t/security-vulnerabilities-in-rt-2017-06-15/32016", "refsource": "CONFIRM", "url": "https://forum.bestpractical.com/t/security-vulnerabilities-in-rt-2017-06-15/32016" }, { "name": "[oss-security] 20151002 Re: DoS attack through Email-Address perl module v1.907 (CVE id request)", "refsource": "MLIST", "url": "http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/10/02/13" }, { "name": "[oss-security] 20150927 DoS attack through Email-Address perl module v1.907 (CVE id request)", "refsource": "MLIST", "url": "http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/09/27/1" } ] } }