Debian Linux Security Advisory 2969-1 - 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.
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Debian Security Advisory DSA-2969-1 security@debian.org
https://www.debian.org/security/ Salvatore Bonaccorso
June 27, 2014 https://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : libemail-address-perl
CVE ID : CVE-2014-0477
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.
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.
Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://www.debian.org/security/
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
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