MGASA-2016-0397

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Source

https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2016-0397.html

Import Source

https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2016-0397.json

JSON Data

https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/MGASA-2016-0397

Upstream

CVE-2015-7686

Published

2016-11-25T17:04:30Z

Modified

2026-04-16T06:23:50.915427148Z

Summary

Updated perl-Email-Address packages fix security vulnerability

Details

Pali Rohár discovered a possible DoS attack in any software which uses the Email::Address Perl module for parsing string input to a list of email addresses.

Note that this issue has only been partially mitigated in Email::Address itself.

References

Credits

- Mageia - COORDINATOR
- - https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Packages_Security_Team

Affected packages

Mageia:5 / perl-Email-Address

Package

Name: perl-Email-Address
Purl: pkg:rpm/mageia/perl-Email-Address?arch=source&distro=mageia-5

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

1.908.0-1.mga5

Ecosystem specific

{
    "section": "core"
}

Database specific

source

"https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2016-0397.json"