CVE-2014-9116

N/A
Published: December 2, 2014 at 04:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 12:17 AM UTC
5 products affected across 4 vendorsDebian LinuxLinux Enterprise DesktopSUSE Linux Enterprise Server

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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 10%

Description

The write_one_header function in mutt 1.5.23 does not properly handle newline characters at the beginning of a header, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a header with an empty body, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow in the mutt_substrdup function.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

References (13)

x_refsource_CONFIRMThird Party Advisory
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0509.html
x_refsource_CONFIRMIssue TrackingVendor Advisory
http://dev.mutt.org/trac/ticket/3716
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANThird Party Advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3083
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVABroken Link
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:245
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVABroken Link
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:078
Mailing Listx_refsource_MLISTExploitThird Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/27/5
Mailing Listx_refsource_MLISTThird Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/27/9

CVSS

Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
PARTIAL
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-119

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