Resource Exhaustion Affecting perl-Email-Address package, versions *
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-PERLEMAILADDRESS-1378975
- published26 Jul 2021
- disclosed19 Jun 2018
Introduced: 19 Jun 2018
CVE-2018-12558 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
There is no fixed version for RHEL:7 perl-Email-Address.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream perl-Email-Address package and not the perl-Email-Address package as distributed by RHEL.
See How to fix? for RHEL:7 relevant fixed versions and status.
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").