CVE-2014-9116
Published · Updated
3Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackepss 9.7%
exploitation probability
9.7%top 4% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
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.
Affected products
n/a · n/aReferences
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0509.htmlhttp://dev.mutt.org/trac/ticket/3716http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-01/msg00002.htmlhttps://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=771125https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1168463https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-04http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3083http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:245http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:078http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/27/5http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/27/9http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71334