openSUSE Security Update : perl-Email-Address (openSUSE-SU-2014:1328-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 78720

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

This update fixes a denial of service vulnerability when parsing an empty quoted string (CVE-2014-0477)

Solution

Update the affected perl-Email-Address package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 78720

File Name: openSUSE-2014-604.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 10/29/2014

Updated: 1/19/2021

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:12.3, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:13.1, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:perl-email-address

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 10/8/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-0477

Detections

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