fkie_cve-2014-9116
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2014-12-02 16:59
Modified
2025-04-12 10:46
Severity ?
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.orghttp://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0509.htmlThird Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://dev.mutt.org/trac/ticket/3716Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-01/msg00002.htmlThird Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3083Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:245Broken Link
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:078Broken Link
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/27/5Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/27/9Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71334Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031266Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cve@mitre.orghttps://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=771125Exploit, Issue Tracking
cve@mitre.orghttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1168463Exploit, Issue Tracking
cve@mitre.orghttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-04
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0509.htmlThird Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://dev.mutt.org/trac/ticket/3716Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-01/msg00002.htmlThird Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3083Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:245Broken Link
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:078Broken Link
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/27/5Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/27/9Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71334Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031266Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=771125Exploit, Issue Tracking
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1168463Exploit, Issue Tracking
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-04
Impacted products



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