Input validation error - CVE-2014-0477
Published: July 3, 2014 / Updated: August 3, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU33089
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2014-0477
CWE-ID: CWE-20
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows remote attackers to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input. A remote attacker can cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via an empty quoted string in an RFC 2822 address.
Affected software
perl-email-address (Alpine package)
mysql (Alpine package)
perl-Email-Address
Fedora
mysql (Alpine package)
perl-Email-Address
Fedora
How to mitigate CVE-2014-0477
Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution to address this vulnerability.
perl-email-address (Alpine package) - update to 1.905-r0
mysql (Alpine package) - update to 5.5.38-r0
perl-Email-Address - addressed in versions 1.905-1.el5, 1.905-1.el6
mysql (Alpine package) - update to 5.5.38-r0
perl-Email-Address - addressed in versions 1.905-1.el5, 1.905-1.el6
External References
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q2/563
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59212
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59333
- http://secunia.com/advisories/61981
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2969
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1110723
- https://github.com/rjbs/Email-Address/blob/master/Changes
- https://github.com/rjbs/Email-Address/commit/83f8306117115729ac9346523762c0c396251eb5
- https://metacpan.org/release/RJBS/Email-Address-1.905