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Opened May 09, 2019 by Alicha CH@alichaReporter

[3.9] perl-email-address: DOS vulnerability in perl module Email::Address (CVE-2018-12558)

The parse() method in the Email::Address module through 1.909 for Perl is vulnerable
to Algorithmic complexity on specially prepared input, leading to Denial of Service. Prepared
special input that caused this problem contained 30 form-field characters (“\f”).

References:

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-12558
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/06/19/3

Patch:

https://github.com/Perl-Email-Project/Email-Address/commit/aeaf0d7f1b0897b54cb246b8ac15d3ef177e5cae

(from redmine: issue id 10432, created on 2019-05-09, closed on 2019-06-13)

  • Relations:
    • parent #10430 (closed)
  • Changesets:
    • Revision 587d0f68 on 2019-06-05T09:48:52Z:
main/perl-email-address: security upgrade to 1.912 (CVE-2018-12558)

Fixes #10432
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Reference: alpine/aports#10432