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 10435, created on 2019-05-09, closed on 2019-06-06)

• Relations:
  • parent #10430 (closed)
• Changesets:
  • Revision 18070a9b on 2019-06-05T12:38:19Z:

main/perl-email-address: security upgrade to 1.912 (CVE-2018-12558)

Fixes #10435