SB2024052056 - Denial of service in Email-MIME
Published: May 20, 2024
Security Bulletin ID
SB2024052056
CSH Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-4140)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources when parsing multipart MIME messages. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.
References
- https://github.com/rjbs/Email-MIME/issues/66
- https://github.com/rjbs/Email-MIME/pull/80
- https://bugs.debian.org/960062
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-4140
- https://github.com/rjbs/Email-MIME/commit/3a12edd119e493156a5a05e45dd50f4e36b702e8
- https://github.com/rjbs/Email-MIME/commit/7e96ecfa1da44914a407f82ae98ba817bba08f2d
- https://github.com/rjbs/Email-MIME/commit/02bf3e26812c8f38a86a33c168571f9783365df2
- https://github.com/rjbs/Email-MIME/commit/fc0fededd24a71ccc51bcd8b1e486385d09aae63
- https://github.com/rjbs/Email-MIME/commit/b2cb62f19e12580dd235f79e2546d44a6bec54d1
- https://github.com/rjbs/Email-MIME/commit/3dcf096eeccb8e4dd42738de676c8f4a5aa7a531