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Mageia 7: Advisory 2021-0078 Moderate: Email MIME Memory Exhaustion DoS

Messages with too many tiny nested MIME parts can lead to memory exhaustion on split(), resulting in denial of service (rhbz#1835353) 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. . MGASA-2021-0078 - Updated perl-Email-MIME and perl-Email-MIME-ContentType packages fix security vulnerability Publication date: 10 Feb 2021 URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2021-0078.html Type: security Affected Mageia releases: 7 Messages with too many tiny nested MIME parts can lead to memory exhaustion on split(), resulting in denial of service (rhbz#1835353) 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. References: - https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26757 - https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it./thread/VJFUIVJOQGZOYF4Q4RXPBJTBBZD5LXVK/ - https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it./thread/3PWODHVD5ZKQBY2OYBTFPBETUOOJA33D/ SRPMS: - 7/core/perl-Email-MIME-1.949.0-3.1.mga7 - 7/core/perl-Email-MIME-ContentType-1.24.0-3.1.mga7 . This critical patch resolves memory depletion vulnerabilities in Mageia's Mail software and restricts excessive nested MIME components.. Mageia, Email MIME, Perl Packages, Security Update, Denial of Service. . LinuxSecurity.com Team

Feb 10, 2021 Mageia