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Fedora: 2020-22764f623f Moderate: perl-Email-MIME Memory Exhaustion Risk

This update limits the number of nested MIME parts to 10 (by default), to avoid a possible memory exhaustion issue with lots of tiny MIME parts.. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2020-22764f623f 2020-06-03 01:49:08.906409 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Name : perl-Email-MIME Product : Fedora 32 Version : 1.949 Release : 1.fc32 URL : https://metacpan.org/dist/Email-MIME Summary : Easy MIME message parsing Description : 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 limits the number of nested MIME parts to 10 (by default), to avoid a possible memory exhaustion issue with lots of tiny MIME parts. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------ChangeLog: * Sun May 24 2020 Paul Howarth - 1.949-1 - Update to 1.949 - Add $Email::MIME::MAX_DEPTH and refuse to parse deeper than that many parts; current default: 10 - Fixes to handling of content-type parameters --------------------------------------------------------------------------------References: [ 1 ] Bug #1835353 - rubygem-mail: Out of memory issue through nested MIME parts https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1835353 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2020-22764f623f' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html All packages are signed with the FedoraProject GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at https://fedoraproject.org/security/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------_______________________________________________ package-announce mailing list -- This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. To unsubscribe send an email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it./ . Mitigate excessive nested MIME sections to prevent memory overload in perl-Email-MIME after Fedora 32 upgrade FEDORA-2020-22764f623f.. perl Email MIME,Fedora update,memory issue,MIME parts,nested MIME. . Severity: Important. LinuxSecurity.com Team

Jun 02, 2020 •Important Fedora