EulerOS 2.0 SP3 : perl-Email-Address (EulerOS-SA-2020-2104)

high Nessus Plugin ID 140871

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS host is missing multiple security updates.

Description

According to the versions of the perl-Email-Address package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

- Algorithmic complexity vulnerability in Address.pm in the Email-Address module 1.908 and earlier for Perl allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a crafted string containing a list of e-mail addresses in conjunction with parenthesis characters that can be associated with nested comments. NOTE: the default configuration in 1.908 mitigates this vulnerability but misparses certain realistic comments.(CVE-2015-7686)

- 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)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected perl-Email-Address packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?08444521

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 140871

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2020-2104.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Published: 9/28/2020

Updated: 2/19/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-7686

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-12558

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:perl-email-address, cpe:/o:huawei:euleros:2.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/EulerOS/release, Host/EulerOS/rpm-list, Host/EulerOS/sp

Excluded KB Items: Host/EulerOS/uvp_version

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/28/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-7686, CVE-2018-12558