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Fedora 39 : perl-Email-MIME (2024-38fb541a75)

high Nessus Plugin ID 197910

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Fedora 39 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2024-38fb541a75 advisory.

 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.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected perl-Email-MIME package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2024-38fb541a75

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 197910

File Name: fedora_2024-38fb541a75.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/25/2024

Updated: 5/25/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-4140

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:39, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:perl-email-mime

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/16/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/2/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-4140