-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2024-032e16360b 2024-05-25 01:04:07.908630 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : perl-Email-MIME Product : Fedora 40 Version : 1.954 Release : 1.fc40 URL : https://metacpan.org/release/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, 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. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Thu May 16 2024 Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> - 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) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #2280644 - Upgrade perl-Email-MIME to 1.954 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2280644 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2024-032e16360b' 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 All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at https://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- _______________________________________________ package-announce mailing list -- package-announce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to package-announce-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 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/package-announce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
