Advisories » MGASA-2019-0046

Updated perl-Email-Address package fixes security vulnerability

Publication date: 23 Jan 2019
Modification date: 23 Jan 2019
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 6
CVE: CVE-2018-12558

Description

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://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-12558

SRPMS

6/core

• perl-Email-Address-1.912.0-1.mga6