Bug 2563416 - CVE-2026-116273 perl-MIME-tools: perl-mime-tools: Denial of Service via memory exhaustion from excessive message parts [fedora-rawhide]
Summary: CVE-2026-116273 perl-MIME-tools: perl-mime-tools: Denial of Service via memor...
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: perl-MIME-tools
Version: rawhide
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
high
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Paul Howarth
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard: {"flaws": ["c820bae1-27c4-4736-b52a-2...
Depends On:
Blocks: CVE-2026-116273
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2026-10-29 15:12 UTC by Marian Rehak
Modified: 2026-11-06 01:50 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

Fixed In Version: perl-MIME-tools-5.522-1.fc45 perl-MIME-tools-5.522-1.fc44 perl-MIME-tools-5.522-1.fc43
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2026-11-06 01:15:26 UTC
Type: ---
Embargoed:


Attachments (Terms of Use)

Description Marian Rehak 2026-10-29 15:12:45 UTC
Disclaimer: Community trackers are created by Red Hat Product Security team on a best effort basis. Package maintainers are required to ascertain if the flaw indeed affects their package, before starting the update process.

MIME::Parser versions before 5.521 for Perl set no limit on the number of message parts by default, allowing memory exhaustion.

The max_parts option defaulted to -1, which disables the limit, so a parser created with default settings builds an entity for every part however many a message has.

Version 5.521 sets max_parts to 1000 and max_depth to 64 by default. Setting either to -1 still removes the limit.

Comment 1 Fedora Update System 2026-10-30 08:33:11 UTC
FEDORA-2026-51fdfb7476 (perl-MIME-tools-5.522-1.fc45) has been submitted as an update to Fedora 45.
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-51fdfb7476

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2026-10-30 08:34:29 UTC
FEDORA-2026-0e79d6ad13 (perl-MIME-tools-5.522-1.fc44) has been submitted as an update to Fedora 44.
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-0e79d6ad13

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2026-10-30 08:35:34 UTC
FEDORA-2026-a415b3bf48 (perl-MIME-tools-5.522-1.fc43) has been submitted as an update to Fedora 43.
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-a415b3bf48

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2026-11-06 01:15:26 UTC
FEDORA-2026-51fdfb7476 (perl-MIME-tools-5.522-1.fc45) has been pushed to the Fedora 45 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2026-11-06 01:25:26 UTC
FEDORA-2026-0e79d6ad13 (perl-MIME-tools-5.522-1.fc44) has been pushed to the Fedora 44 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2026-11-06 01:50:16 UTC
FEDORA-2026-a415b3bf48 (perl-MIME-tools-5.522-1.fc43) has been pushed to the Fedora 43 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.


Note You need to log in before you can comment on or make changes to this bug.