Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Oct 6, 2015· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2015-7686

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.

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Affected products

Email\/Email Address
cpe:2.3:a:email-address_project:email-address:*:*:*:*:*:perl:*:*
Range: <=1.908
Perl Foundation/Email-Addressllm-create
Range: <=1.908

Patches

Vulnerability mechanics

References

www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/09/27/1nvd
www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/10/02/13nvd
forum.bestpractical.com/t/security-vulnerabilities-in-rt-2017-06-15/32016nvd

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