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Ubuntu: USN-4517-1 (CVE-2018-18898): Email-Address-List vulnerability

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Ubuntu: USN-4517-1 (CVE-2018-18898): Email-Address-List vulnerability

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
01/02/2019
Created
09/22/2020
Added
09/18/2020
Modified
03/22/2023

Description

The email-ingestion feature in Best Practical Request Tracker 4.1.13 through 4.4 allows denial of service by remote attackers via an algorithmic complexity attack on email address parsing.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-libemail-address-list-perl

References

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