Fedora 39: perl-Email-MIME 2024-38fb541a75 Security Advisory Updates
Summary
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.
Change Log
* Thu May 16 2024 Paul Howarth
References
[ 1 ] Bug #2280644 - Upgrade perl-Email-MIME to 1.954 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2280644
Update Instructions
This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2024-38fb541a75' 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