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

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Severity

CVSS

(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

Published

Jan 2, 2019

Added

Sep 18, 2020

Modified

Mar 27, 2026

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

ubuntu-upgrade-libemail-address-list-perl

References

CVE-2018-18898
https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2018-18898
CWE-400
EUVD-EUVD-2018-10608
NVD-CVE-2018-18898
UBUNTU-USN-4517-1
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2018-10608

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