The Debian 'libemail-address-perl' package in Debian 7 is vulnerable to denial of service attack (DSA-2969-1)
Reporter | Title | Published | Views | Family All 36 |
---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : perl-Email-Address (MDVSA-2014:192) | 2 Oct 201400:00 | – | nessus |
![]() | Debian DSA-2969-1 : libemail-address-perl - security update | 28 Jun 201400:00 | – | nessus |
![]() | Fedora 19 : perl-Email-Address-1.905-1.fc19 (2014-7610) | 29 Sep 201400:00 | – | nessus |
![]() | openSUSE Security Update : perl-Email-Address (openSUSE-SU-2014:1328-1) | 29 Oct 201400:00 | – | nessus |
![]() | Fedora 20 : perl-Email-Address-1.905-1.fc20 (2014-7613) | 29 Sep 201400:00 | – | nessus |
![]() | RHEL 7 : perl-email-address (Unpatched Vulnerability) | 3 Jun 202400:00 | – | nessus |
![]() | CVE-2014-4720 | 6 Jul 201423:55 | – | nvd |
![]() | CVE-2014-0477 | 3 Jul 201417:55 | – | nvd |
![]() | CVE-2014-4720 | 6 Jul 201423:00 | – | cvelist |
![]() | CVE-2014-0477 | 3 Jul 201417:00 | – | cvelist |
Source | Link |
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security-tracker | www.security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/DSA-2969 |
debian | www.debian.org/security/2014/DSA-2969-1 |
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2014 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
if(description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.702969");
script_cve_id("CVE-2014-0477", "CVE-2014-4720");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2014-06-26 22:00:00 +0000 (Thu, 26 Jun 2014)");
script_version("2024-02-02T05:06:04+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2024-02-02 05:06:04 +0000 (Fri, 02 Feb 2024)");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"5.0");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
script_name("Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-2969-1)");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2014 Greenbone AG");
script_family("Debian Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("gather-package-list.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("ssh/login/debian_linux", "ssh/login/packages", re:"ssh/login/release=DEB7");
script_xref(name:"Advisory-ID", value:"DSA-2969-1");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://www.debian.org/security/2014/DSA-2969-1");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/DSA-2969");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'libemail-address-perl' package(s) announced via the DSA-2969-1 advisory.");
script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable package version is present on the target host.");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"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.");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"'libemail-address-perl' package(s) on Debian 7.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Please install the updated package(s).");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"package");
exit(0);
}
include("revisions-lib.inc");
include("pkg-lib-deb.inc");
release = dpkg_get_ssh_release();
if(!release)
exit(0);
res = "";
report = "";
if(release == "DEB7") {
if(!isnull(res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"libemail-address-perl", ver:"1.895-1+deb7u1", rls:"DEB7"))) {
report += res;
}
if(report != "") {
security_message(data:report);
} else if(__pkg_match) {
exit(99);
}
exit(0);
}
exit(0);
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