CVE-2014-9116
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
5.0
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.
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.
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OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| debian | bookworm | fixed | 1.5.23-2 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 1.5.23-2 |
| debian | forky | fixed | 1.5.23-2 |
| debian | sid | fixed | 1.5.23-2 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 1.5.23-2 |
| suse | 12 | affected | |
| debian | 7.0 | affected | |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| mutt | mutt | 1.5.23 | |
References
- http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0509.html
- http://dev.mutt.org/trac/ticket/3716
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-01/msg00002.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3083
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:245
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:078
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/27/5
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/27/9
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71334
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031266
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=771125
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1168463
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-04
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-9116
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.