CVE-2018-12558

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Summary

CVECVE-2018-12558
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-06-20 14:29:00 UTC
Updated2019-04-02 18:29:00 UTC
DescriptionThe 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").

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-407

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Email address_module_project email address
Application Email address_module_project email\ \ address

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2019:1114-1: important: Security update SUSE lists.opensuse.org
#901873 - CVE-2018-12558: DOS vulnerability in perl module Email::Address - Debian Bug report logs MISC bugs.debian.org Third Party Advisory
oss-security - CVE-2018-12558: DOS in perl module Email::Address MLIST www.openwall.com Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 500521 Alpine Linux Security Update for perl-email-address
  • 504281 Alpine Linux Security Update for perl-email-address
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