CVE-2024-4140 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2024-4140 at MITRE

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Does not affect SUSE products

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v3 Scores
	CNA (Canonical)
Base Score	7.5
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack Vector	Network
Attack Complexity	Low
Privileges Required	None
User Interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact	None
Integrity Impact	None
Availability Impact	High
CVSSv3 Version	3.1

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 1224396 [NEW]

No SUSE Security Announcements cross referenced.

List of released packages

Product(s)	Fixed package version(s)	References
openSUSE Tumbleweed	`perl-Email-MIME >= 1.954.0-1.1`	Patchnames: openSUSE-Tumbleweed-2024-13973

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri May 3 00:00:03 2024
CVE page last modified: Wed Aug 27 12:09:54 2025