MGASA-2021-0078

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    MGASA-2021-0078

    Published: 10 Feb 2021Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026

    Summary: Updated perl-Email-MIME and perl-Email-MIME-ContentType packages fix security vulnerability

    Details: 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://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2021-0078.html, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26757, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/VJFUIVJOQGZOYF4Q4RXPBJTBBZD5LXVK/, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/3PWODHVD5ZKQBY2OYBTFPBETUOOJA33D/

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: perl-Email-MIME

    Purl: pkg:rpm/mageia/perl-Email-MIME?arch=source&distro=mageia-7

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1.949.0-3.1.mga7

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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    Integrity
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    MGASA-2021-0078 | CVE-DB