Mageia alert MGASA-2019-0046 (perl-Email-Address)

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[updates-announce] MGASA-2019-0046: Updated perl-Email-Address package fixes security vulnerability 
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Wed, 23 Jan 2019 16:51:05 +0100
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MGASA-2019-0046 - Updated perl-Email-Address package fixes security vulnerability

Publication date: 23 Jan 2019
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2019-0046.html
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 6
CVE: CVE-2018-12558

Description:
The parse() method in the Email::Address module through 1.912 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") (CVE-2018-12558).

References:
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23208
-
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-ann...
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-1...

SRPMS:
- 6/core/perl-Email-Address-1.912.0-1.mga6