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Alpine: multiple perl-email-address packages: security update to 1.912-r0

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 424346

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - The parse() method in the Email::Address module through 1.909 for Perl is vulnerable to Algorithmic
 complexity 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)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2018-12558

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 424346

Version: Revision 1.8

Type: Local

Published: 4/4/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-12558

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/20/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-12558