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CVE-2024-4140

Published: 02/05/2024 Updated: 03/05/2024

Vulnerability Summary

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 patch set (from 2020 and 2024) limits excessive depth and the total number of parts.

Vendor Advisories

Debian Bug report logs - #960062 libemail-mime-perl: CVE-2024-4140: DoS on excessive or deeply nested parts Package: libemail-mime-perl; Maintainer for libemail-mime-perl is Debian Perl Group <pkg-perl-maintainers@listsaliothdebianorg>; Source for libemail-mime-perl is src:libemail-mime-perl (PTS, buildd, popcon) Reported ...