CVEvulnerability
CVE-2014-9116
5.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2014-12-02
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119
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 configurations
• suse linux enterprise desktop 12
• suse suse linux enterprise server 12
• mutt mutt 1.5.23
• debian debian linux 7.0
• mageia mageia 4.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness
References
- http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0509.html Third Party Advisory
- http://dev.mutt.org/trac/ticket/3716 Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-01/msg00002.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3083 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:245 Broken Link
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:078 Broken Link
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/27/5 Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/27/9 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71334 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031266 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=771125 Exploit, Issue Tracking
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1168463 Exploit, Issue Tracking
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-04 security.gentoo.org
- http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0509.html Third Party Advisory
- http://dev.mutt.org/trac/ticket/3716 Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-01/msg00002.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3083 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:245 Broken Link
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:078 Broken Link
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/27/5 Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/27/9 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71334 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031266 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=771125 Exploit, Issue Tracking
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1168463 Exploit, Issue Tracking
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-04 security.gentoo.org