Debian DSA-2969-1 : libemail-address-perl - security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 76286

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Synopsis

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

Description

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.

Solution

Upgrade the libemail-address-perl packages.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 1.895-1+deb7u1.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 76286

File Name: debian_DSA-2969.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 6/28/2014

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libemail-address-perl, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/27/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-0477, CVE-2014-4720

BID: 68084

DSA: 2969

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