https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1593318
Bug ID: 1593318
Summary: CVE-2018-12558 perl-Email-Address: Specially crafted
input could cause Denial of Service due to complex
parse() method
Product: Security Response
Component: vulnerability
Keywords: Security
Severity: medium
Priority: medium
Assignee: security-response-team(a)redhat.com
Reporter: anemec(a)redhat.com
CC: jose.p.oliveira.oss(a)gmail.com,
perl-devel(a)lists.fedoraproject.org,
perl-maint-list(a)redhat.com, rob.myers(a)gtri.gatech.edu,
tcallawa(a)redhat.com
The parse() method in the Email::Address module through 1.909 for Perl can
consume a large amount of resources on specially prepared input, leading to
Denial of Service. Prepared special input that caused this problem contained 30
form-field characters ("\f").
References:
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2018/q2/211
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=901873
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