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Fedora 39: 2024-38fb541a75 Moderate: perl-Email-MIME Memory Fix: DoS

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Calendar Grey May 25, 2024
Dist Fedora Esm H88
This Fedora patch resolves a memory leak in perl-Email-MIME to avert DoS vulnerabilities during email message parsing.
This update, to the latest upstream release, addresses an excessive memory use issue (CVE-2024-4140), which can cause denial of service when parsing multi-part MIME messages; the f...

Summary

This is an extension of the Email::Simple module, to handle MIME

encoded messages. It takes a message as a string, splits it up

into its constituent parts, and allows you access to various

parts of the message. Headers are decoded from MIME encoding.

Update Information:

This update, to the latest upstream release, addresses an excessive memory use issue (CVE-2024-4140), which can cause denial of service when parsing multi-part MIME messages; the fix is the new $MAX_PARTS configuration, which limits how many parts will be considered for parsing, defaulting to 100.

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Topics Covered

security advisory update Fedora DoS memory issue perl-Email-MIME

Change Log

* Thu May 16 2024 Paul Howarth - 1.954-1 - Update to 1.954 (rhbz#2280644) - Fix for CVE-2024-4140: An excessive memory use issue (CWE-770) exists in Email-MIME before version 1.954, which can cause denial of service when parsing multipart MIME messages; the fix is the new $MAX_PARTS configuration, which limits how many parts we will consider parsing (the default $MAX_PARTS is 100) * Thu Jan 25 2024 Fedora Release Engineering - 1.953-5 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_40_Mass_Rebuild * Sun Jan 21 2024 Fedora Release Engineering - 1.953-4 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_40_Mass_Rebuild

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2280644 - Upgrade perl-Email-MIME to 1.954 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2280644

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2024-38fb541a75' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

Name: perl-Email-MIME
Product: Fedora 39
Version: 1.954
Release: 1.fc39
URL: https://metacpan.org/dist/Email-MIME
Summary: Easy MIME message parsing

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Topics Covered

security advisory update Fedora DoS memory issue perl-Email-MIME

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