CVE-2026-116270

MIME::Words versions before 5.521 for Perl allow memory exhaustion via repeated "=?" sequences in decodemimewords. For each "=?" that does not start a complete encoded word, decodemimewords appends an error message containing the whole input string to $@. A boundary of 8,000 "=?" pairs 16,000 byt...

CVE-2026-116270 MIME::Words versions before 5.521 for Perl allow memory exhaustion via repeated "=?" sequences in decode_mimewords

MIME::Words versions before 5.521 for Perl allow memory exhaustion via repeated "=?" sequences in decodemimewords. For each "=?" that does not start a complete encoded word, decodemimewords appends an error message containing the whole input string to $@. A boundary of 8,000 "=?" pairs 16,000 byt...

CVE-2026-116270

The MIME::Words component for Perl (versions before 5.521 ) is vulnerable to memory exhaustion due to how it handles the decode_mimewords function. For every "=?" sequence that does not begin a complete encoded word, the function appends an error message containing the entire input string to the ...

EUVD-2026-112303

MIME::Words versions before 5.521 for Perl allow memory exhaustion via repeated "=?" sequences in decodemimewords. For each "=?" that does not start a complete encoded word, decodemimewords appends an error message containing the whole input string to $@. A boundary of 8,000 "=?" pairs 16,000 byt...

PT-2026-129084

MIME::Words versions before 5.521 for Perl allow memory exhaustion via repeated "=?" sequences in decode mimewords. For each "=?" that does not start a complete encoded word, decode mimewords appends an error message containing the whole input string to $@. A boundary of 8,000 "=?" pairs 16,000...