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Ubuntu 18.04 LTS: USN-4517-1 Critical: Email-Address-List DoS

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Calendar Grey September 18, 2020
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
This advisory warns of a vulnerability in the Email-Address-List module for various Ubuntu versions, potentially risking privacy and system integrity
Email-Address-List could be made to remotely exhaust resources if it received specially crafted email data.

Summary

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service Ubuntu email exhaustion perl library update

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS: libemail-address-list-perl 0.05-1+deb9u1build0.18.04.1 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS: libemail-address-list-perl 0.05-1+deb9u1build0.16.04.1 In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4517-1

CVE-2018-18898

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September 17, 2020

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service Ubuntu email exhaustion perl library update

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libemail-address-list-perl/0.05-1+deb9u1build0.18.04.1 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libemail-address-list-perl/0.05-1+deb9u1build0.16.04.1

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