CVE-2014-9116
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Dec 2, 2014
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Nov 26, 2014
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.
Scores
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1168463
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=771125
- SUSE-SU-2015:0012vendor-advisory
- 1031266vdb-entry
- http://dev.mutt.org/trac/ticket/3716
- [oss-security] 20141127 CVE request: mutt: heap-based buffer overflow in mutt_substrdup()mailing-list
- MDVSA-2015:078vendor-advisory
- http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0509.html
- GLSA-201701-04vendor-advisory
- [oss-security] 20141126 Re: CVE request: mutt: heap-based buffer overflow in mutt_substrdup()mailing-list
- 71334vdb-entry
- DSA-3083vendor-advisory
- MDVSA-2014:245vendor-advisory
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