python: DOS via regular expression catastrophic backtracking in apop() method in pop3lib

A flaw was found in the way catastrophic backtracking was implemented in python's pop3lib's apop method. An attacker could use this flaw to cause denial of service...

Design/Logic Flaw

The URI.decodewwwformcomponent method in Ruby before 1.9.2-p330 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service catastrophic regular expression backtracking, resource consumption, or application crash via a crafted string...

DEBIAN-CVE-2015-8854

The marked package before 0.3.4 for Node.js allows attackers to cause a denial of service CPU consumption via unspecified vectors that trigger a "catastrophic backtracking issue for the em inline rule," aka a "regular expression denial of service ReDoS."...

CVE-2016-7869

Adobe Flash Player versions 23.0.0.207 and earlier, 11.2.202.644 and earlier have an exploitable buffer overflow / underflow vulnerability in the RegExp class related to backtrack search functionality. Successful exploitation could lead to arbitrary code execution...

PT-2015-3416 · Marked · Marked

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: marked versions 0.3.3 and earlier Description: The issue is related to errors in resource management, allowing a remote attacker to cause a denial of service. This can be achieved through unspecified vectors that trigger a "catastrophic...

MGASA-2014-0389 Updated perl-Email-Address packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated perl-Email-Address package fixes security vulnerability: 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...

CVE-2014-4720

Email::Address module before 1.904 for Perl uses an inefficient regular expression, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service CPU consumption via vectors related to "backtracking into the phrase," a different vulnerability than CVE-2014-0477...