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CVE-2014-9116

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.

Published

2014-12-02T16:59:08.150

Last Modified

2025-04-12T10:46:40.837

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv2: 5.0 (MEDIUM)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Access Vector: NETWORK
Access Complexity: LOW
Authentication: NONE
Confidentiality Impact: NONE
Integrity Impact: NONE
Availability Impact: PARTIAL

Exploitability Score

10.0

Impact Score

2.9

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
CWE-119

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Operating System	suse	linux_enterprise_desktop	12	Yes
Operating System	suse	suse_linux_enterprise_server	12	Yes
Application	mutt	mutt	1.5.23	Yes
Operating System	debian	debian_linux	7.0	Yes
Operating System	mageia	mageia	4.0	Yes

References

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0509.html Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
http://dev.mutt.org/trac/ticket/3716 Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-01/msg00002.html Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3083 Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:245 Broken Link ([email protected])
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:078 Broken Link ([email protected])
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/27/5 Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/27/9 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71334 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry ([email protected])
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031266 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry ([email protected])
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=771125 Exploit, Issue Tracking ([email protected])
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1168463 Exploit, Issue Tracking ([email protected])
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-04 ([email protected])
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0509.html Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://dev.mutt.org/trac/ticket/3716 Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-01/msg00002.html Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3083 Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:245 Broken Link (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:078 Broken Link (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/27/5 Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/27/9 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71334 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031266 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=771125 Exploit, Issue Tracking (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1168463 Exploit, Issue Tracking (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-04 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)