CVE-2014-9116 (GCVE-0-2014-9116)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2014-12-02 16:00
Modified
2024-08-06 13:33
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
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.
References
cve@mitre.org http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0509.html Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.org http://dev.mutt.org/trac/ticket/3716 Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.org http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-01/msg00002.html Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.org http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3083 Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.org http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:245 Broken Link
cve@mitre.org http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:078 Broken Link
cve@mitre.org http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/27/5 Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.org http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/27/9 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.org http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71334 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cve@mitre.org http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031266 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cve@mitre.org https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=771125 Exploit, Issue Tracking
cve@mitre.org https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1168463 Exploit, Issue Tracking
cve@mitre.org https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-04
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0509.html Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://dev.mutt.org/trac/ticket/3716 Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-01/msg00002.html Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3083 Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:245 Broken Link
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:078 Broken Link
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/27/5 Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/27/9 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71334 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031266 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=771125 Exploit, Issue Tracking
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1168463 Exploit, Issue Tracking
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-04
Impacted products
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  • Not exploited: This vulnerability was not exploited or seen by the user reporting the sighting.
  • Not confirmed: The user expresses doubt about the veracity of the vulnerability.
  • Not patched: This vulnerability was not successfully patched by the user reporting the sighting.