CVEvulnerability
CVE-2018-12558
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-06-20
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-407
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").
Affected configurations
• email\ \ address module project (<= 1.909)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-407 Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity weakness
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00012.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/06/19/3 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=901873 Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00012.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/06/19/3 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=901873 Third Party Advisory