CVEvulnerability
CVE-2024-4140
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2024-05-02
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-770
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• rjbs email-mime (< 1.954)
• fedoraproject fedora 39
• fedoraproject fedora 40
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling weakness
References
- https://bugs.debian.org/960062 Mailing List
- https://github.com/rjbs/Email-MIME/commit/02bf3e26812c8f38a86a33c168571f9783365df2 Patch
- https://github.com/rjbs/Email-MIME/commit/3a12edd119e493156a5a05e45dd50f4e36b702e8 Patch
- https://github.com/rjbs/Email-MIME/commit/3dcf096eeccb8e4dd42738de676c8f4a5aa7a531 Patch
- https://github.com/rjbs/Email-MIME/commit/7e96ecfa1da44914a407f82ae98ba817bba08f2d Patch
- https://github.com/rjbs/Email-MIME/commit/b2cb62f19e12580dd235f79e2546d44a6bec54d1 Patch
- https://github.com/rjbs/Email-MIME/commit/fc0fededd24a71ccc51bcd8b1e486385d09aae63 Patch
- https://github.com/rjbs/Email-MIME/issues/66 Issue Tracking
- https://github.com/rjbs/Email-MIME/pull/80 Issue Tracking
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/UFD5BWGYAVLW6IO4SUNLTJCFFLHZYQGT/ Mailing List
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/YHXHDLPZ6JV4KK3Q43O6TE3WOBAIUQRC/ Mailing List
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-4140 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugs.debian.org/960062 Mailing List
- https://github.com/rjbs/Email-MIME/commit/02bf3e26812c8f38a86a33c168571f9783365df2 Patch
- https://github.com/rjbs/Email-MIME/commit/3a12edd119e493156a5a05e45dd50f4e36b702e8 Patch
- https://github.com/rjbs/Email-MIME/commit/3dcf096eeccb8e4dd42738de676c8f4a5aa7a531 Patch
- https://github.com/rjbs/Email-MIME/commit/7e96ecfa1da44914a407f82ae98ba817bba08f2d Patch
- https://github.com/rjbs/Email-MIME/commit/b2cb62f19e12580dd235f79e2546d44a6bec54d1 Patch
- https://github.com/rjbs/Email-MIME/commit/fc0fededd24a71ccc51bcd8b1e486385d09aae63 Patch
- https://github.com/rjbs/Email-MIME/issues/66 Issue Tracking
- https://github.com/rjbs/Email-MIME/pull/80 Issue Tracking
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/UFD5BWGYAVLW6IO4SUNLTJCFFLHZYQGT/ Mailing List
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/YHXHDLPZ6JV4KK3Q43O6TE3WOBAIUQRC/ Mailing List
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-4140 Third Party Advisory