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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2018-12558: perl-Email-Address security update

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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2018-12558: perl-Email-Address security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
06/20/2018
Created
09/28/2020
Added
09/28/2020
Modified
09/28/2020

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").

Solution(s)

  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp3-upgrade-perl-email-address

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