CVE-2026-116267 Affecting libmime-tools-perl package, versions *

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libmime-tools-perl package and not the libmime-tools-perl package as distributed by Echo. See How to fix? for Echo:latest relevant fixed versions and status.

MIME::Parser versions before 5.521 for Perl allow memory exhaustion via indented error messages from a truncated, deeply nested message.

Each stored parser diagnostic is indented by three spaces per nesting level. When a message nested N levels deep ends without its closing boundaries, every level logs an error at its own depth, so the stored diagnostics grow with the square of N. The defaults place no limit on nesting depth.

• https://advisory.echohq.com/cve/CVE-2026-116267
• https://metacpan.org/release/DSKOLL/MIME-tools-5.521/changes