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Alpine Linux: CVE-2018-18898: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2018-18898: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
03/17/2019
Created
04/09/2024
Added
03/26/2024
Modified
10/01/2024

Description

The email-ingestion feature in Best Practical Request Tracker 4.1.13 through 4.4 allows denial of service by remote attackers via an algorithmic complexity attack on email address parsing.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-perl-email-address-list

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