VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2014-0467

medium
Published 2014-03-14 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.0

Description

Buffer overflow in copy.c in Mutt before 1.5.23 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted RFC2047 header line, related to address expansion.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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OS impact
OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed1.5.22-2
debian debianbullseyefixed1.5.22-2
debian debianforkyfixed1.5.22-2
debian debiansidfixed1.5.22-2
debian debiantrixiefixed1.5.22-2
suse suse11.4affected
suse suse12.3affected
suse suse13.1affected

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
muttmutt1.5.4
muttmutt1.5.5
muttmutt{"endIncluding":"1.5.22"}
muttmutt1.5
muttmutt1.5.1
muttmutt1.5.2
muttmutt1.5.3
muttmutt1.5.6
muttmutt1.5.7
muttmutt1.5.8
muttmutt1.5.9
muttmutt1.5.10
muttmutt1.5.11
muttmutt1.5.12
muttmutt1.5.13
muttmutt1.5.14
muttmutt1.5.15
muttmutt1.5.16
muttmutt1.5.17
muttmutt1.5.18
muttmutt1.5.19
muttmutt1.5.20
muttmutt1.5.21

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.