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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.1.1.2.2014.0011
Category:Debian Local Security Checks
Title:Debian: Security Advisory (DLA-0011-1)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'libemail-address-perl' package(s) announced via the DLA-0011-1 advisory.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'libemail-address-perl' package(s) announced via the DLA-0011-1 advisory.

Vulnerability Insight:
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 Debian 6 Squeeze, these issues have been fixed in libemail-address-perl version 1.889-2+deb6u1

Affected Software/OS:
'libemail-address-perl' package(s) on Debian 6.

Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).

CVSS Score:
5.0

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

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2014-0477
Debian Security Information: DSA-2969 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2969
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1110723
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q2/563
http://secunia.com/advisories/59212
http://secunia.com/advisories/59333
http://secunia.com/advisories/61981
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