fkie_cve-2024-4140
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2024-05-02 20:15
Modified
2025-08-26 17:21
Severity ?
Summary
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.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| rjbs | email-mime | * | |
| fedoraproject | fedora | 39 | |
| fedoraproject | fedora | 40 |
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|---|
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