Advisories » MGASA-2014-0389

Updated perl-Email-Address packages fix security vulnerabilities

Publication date: 26 Sep 2014
Modification date: 26 Sep 2014
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 3 , 4
CVE: CVE-2014-0477 , CVE-2014-4720

Description

Updated perl-Email-Address package fixes security vulnerability:

The parse function in Email::Address module before 1.905 for Perl uses an
inefficient regular expression, which allows remote attackers to cause a
denial of service (CPU consumption) via an empty quoted string in an RFC 2822
address (CVE-2014-0477).

The 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"
(CVE-2014-4720).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13541
• https://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2969
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-0477
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-4720

SRPMS

4/core

• perl-Email-Address-1.905.0-1.mga4

3/core

• perl-Email-Address-1.905.0-1.mga3