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...

PYSEC-2020-155

Waitress version 1.4.2 allows a DOS attack When waitress receives a header that contains invalid characters. When a header like "Bad-header: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx\x10" is received, it will cause the regular expression engine to catastrophically backtrack causing the process to use 100% CPU time and...

ALPINE-CVE-2019-16201

WEBrick::HTTPAuth::DigestAuth in Ruby through 2.4.7, 2.5.x through 2.5.6, and 2.6.x through 2.6.4 has a regular expression Denial of Service cause by looping/backtracking. A victim must expose a WEBrick server that uses DigestAuth to the Internet or a untrusted network...

DEBIAN-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...

DEBIAN-CVE-2014-3538

file before 5.19 does not properly restrict the amount of data read during a regex search, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service CPU consumption via a crafted file that triggers backtracking during processing of an awk rule. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an...

DEBIAN-CVE-2013-4363

Algorithmic complexity vulnerability in Gem::Version::ANCHOREDVERSIONPATTERN in lib/rubygems/version.rb in RubyGems before 1.8.23.2, 1.8.24 through 1.8.26, 2.0.x before 2.0.10, and 2.1.x before 2.1.5, as used in Ruby 1.9.0 through 2.0.0p247, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service CP...

DEBIAN-CVE-2013-4287

Algorithmic complexity vulnerability in Gem::Version::VERSIONPATTERN in lib/rubygems/version.rb in RubyGems before 1.8.23.1, 1.8.24 through 1.8.25, 2.0.x before 2.0.8, and 2.1.x before 2.1.0, as used in Ruby 1.9.0 through 2.0.0p247, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service CPU...