Vulnerability Details 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.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.02
EPSS Ranking 82.7%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v2 Score 5.0
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
- 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
Products affected by CVE-2014-9116
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cpe:2.3:a:mutt:mutt:1.5.23
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cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:7.0
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cpe:2.3:o:mageia:mageia:4.0
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cpe:2.3:o:suse:linux_enterprise_desktop:12
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cpe:2.3:o:suse:suse_linux_enterprise_server:12