Bug 1110723 – CVE-2014-0477 perl-Email-Address: Denial-of-Service in Email::Address::parse

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Bug 1110723 - (CVE-2014-0477) CVE-2014-0477 perl-Email-Address: Denial-of-Service in Email::Address::parse

Summary:	CVE-2014-0477 perl-Email-Address: Denial-of-Service in Email::Address::parse

Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX

Aliases:	CVE-2014-0477

Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	low Severity low
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Keywords:	Security

Depends On:	1110724 1110725 1110726
Blocks:	1116708
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Reported:	2014-06-18 06:41 EDT by Vasyl Kaigorodov
Modified:	2015-07-31 03:22 EDT (History)
CC List:	5 users (show)

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Fixed In Version:	perl-Email-Address 1.905
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Last Closed:	2015-01-20 12:02:28 EST
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Description Vasyl Kaigorodov 2014-06-18 06:41:39 EDT

It was discovered [1] that there's a denial of service vulnerability in Email::Address, a Perl module for RFC 2822 address parsing and creation [2]. Email::Address::parse uses significant time on parsing empty quoted string, as allowed by RFC 2822.

Suggested fix was applied upstream as [3] contained in a new upstream version 1.905 [4] which contain additional commits [5] to avoid slowdowns.

[1] http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q2/563
[2] https://metacpan.org/release/Email-Address
[3] https://github.com/rjbs/Email-Address/commit/83f8306
[4] https://metacpan.org/release/RJBS/Email-Address-1.905
[5] https://github.com/rjbs/Email-Address/blob/432d10e/Changes

Comment 1 Vasyl Kaigorodov 2014-06-18 06:42:34 EDT

Created perl-Email-Address tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1110724]
Affects: epel-5 [bug 1110725]
Affects: epel-6 [bug 1110726]

Comment 2 Vincent Danen 2014-06-20 11:49:30 EDT

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Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2014-09-26 05:00:54 EDT

perl-Email-Address-1.905-1.fc19 has been pushed to the Fedora 19 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2014-09-26 05:03:05 EDT

perl-Email-Address-1.905-1.fc20 has been pushed to the Fedora 20 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2014-09-26 13:01:05 EDT

perl-Email-Address-1.905-1.el6 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 6 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2014-09-26 13:01:28 EDT

perl-Email-Address-1.905-1.el5 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 5 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 7 Vincent Danen 2015-01-20 12:02:03 EST

Statement:

Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having Low security impact. This issue is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates. For additional information, refer to the Issue Severity Classification: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/.

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