Mageia: 2019-0046 Moderate: perl-Email-Address DoS Threat
mageia
January 23, 2019
The parse() method in the Email::Address module through 1.912 for Perl can consume a large amount of resources on specially prepared input, leading to Denial of Service
Summary
The parse() method in the Email::Address module through 1.912 for Perl
can consume a large amount of resources on specially prepared input,
leading to Denial of Service. Prepared special input that caused this
problem contained 30 form-field characters ("\f") (CVE-2018-12558).
References
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23208
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/KBO66KNCLV5H73UNWXAZ6VHSLBB6ZIAW/
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-12558
Topics Covered
Resolution
SRPMS
- 6/core/perl-Email-Address-1.912.0-1.mga6
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Publication date: 23 Jan 2019
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2019-0046.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2018-12558
Topics Covered
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