PT-2014-4202 · Best Practical · Rt

Alex Vandiver · Published 2014-07-15 · Updated 2014-07-15 · CVE-2014-1474

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Email::Address::List versions prior to 0.02 RT versions 4.2.0 through 4.2.2

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, specifically CPU consumption, by providing a string without an address. This is related to an algorithmic complexity vulnerability.

Recommendations For Email::Address::List versions prior to 0.02, update to version 0.02 or later. For RT versions 4.2.0 through 4.2.2, update to a version outside of this range or apply a patch that fixes the algorithmic complexity vulnerability in Email::Address::List.

Fix

DoS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-189

Related Identifiers

CVE-2014-1474

Affected Products

Rt

References · 12

• http://blog.bestpractical.com/2014/01/security-vulnerability-in-rt-42.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-1474 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2014-1474 · Vendor Advisory
• https://metacpan.org/changes/release/ALEXMV/Email-Address-List-0.02 · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2014-1474 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-1474 · Security Note
• http://lists.bestpractical.com/pipermail/rt-announce/2014-June/000257.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2014-1474 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-1474 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-1474 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.bestpractical.com/pipermail/rt-announce/2014-January/000245.html · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-1474 · Note