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Debian Security Advisory DSA 2969-1 (libemail-address-perl - security update)
Information
Severity
Severity
Family
Family
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
Solution Type
Solution Type
Created
Created
Modified
Modified
Summary
Bastian Blank reported a denial of service vulnerability in Email::Address, a Perl module for RFC 2822 address parsing and creation. Email::Address::parse used significant time on parsing empty quoted strings. A remote attacker able to supply specifically crafted input to an application using Email::Address for parsing, could use this flaw to mount a denial of service attack against the application.
Affected Software
Affected Software
libemail-address-perl on Debian Linux
Detection Method
Detection Method
This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.
Solution
Solution
For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 1.895-1+deb7u1. For the testing distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 1.905-1. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1.905-1. We recommend that you upgrade your libemail-address-perl packages.