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CVE-2014-9116
Published:December 02, 2014
Updated:May 17, 2026
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.
Related Resources (16)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1168463
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:078
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-9116
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/27/5
https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2014-9116
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71334
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-04
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:245
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031266
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0509.html
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=771125
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/27/9
http://dev.mutt.org/trac/ticket/3716
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-9116
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-01/msg00002.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3083
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CVSS v3
Base Score:
5.3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
LOW
CVSS v2
Base Score:
5
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Weakness Type (CWE)
Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
CWE-119
EPSS
Base Score:
3.52