CVE-2018-12558

Name
CVE-2018-12558
Description
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").
NVD Severity
medium
Other trackers
CVE, NVD, CERT, CVE Details, CIRCL, Arch Linux, Debian, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE (Bugzilla), SUSE (CVE), Mageia
Mailing lists
oss-security, full-disclosure, bugtraq
Exploits
Exploit DB, Metasploit
Forges
GitHub (code, issues), Aports (code, issues)

References

Type URI
Third Party Advisory https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=901873
Mailing List http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/06/19/3
SUSE http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00012.html

Match rules

CPE URI Source package Min version Max version
cpe:2.3:a:email\:\:address_module_project:email\:\:address:*:*:*:*:*:perl:*:* \ >= None <= 1.909

Vulnerable and fixed packages

Source package Branch Version Maintainer Status
perl-email-address 3.11-main 1.912-r0 Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org> fixed
perl-email-address 3.10-main 1.912-r0 Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org> fixed