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FreeBSD : p5-Email-Address-List -- DDoS related vulnerability (22b90fe6-258e-11e9-9c8d-6805ca0b3d42)

high Nessus Plugin ID 121521

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Synopsis

The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Best PRactical Solutions reports :

0.06 2019-01-02

- Changes to address CVE-2018-18898 which could allow DDoS-type attacks. Thanks to Lukas Kramer for reporting the issue and Alex Vandiver for contributing fixes. - Fix pathological backtracking for unkown regex - Fix pathological backtracking in obs-phrase(i.e.
obs-display-name) - Fix pathological backtracking in cfws, quoted strings

Solution

Update the affected package.

See Also

https://metacpan.org/source/BPS/Email-Address-List-0.06/Changes

http://www.nessus.org/u?d204b65b

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 121521

File Name: freebsd_pkg_22b90fe6258e11e99c8d6805ca0b3d42.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Published: 2/1/2019

Updated: 6/25/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-18898

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:p5-email-address-list, cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/FreeBSD/release, Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/31/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/2/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-18898