CVE-2014-9116

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-119 Buffer Errors

Publication date:

02/12/2014

Last modified:

12/04/2025

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.

Impact

Vector 2.0

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 5.00 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Physical

Base Score 2.0

5.00

Severity 2.0

MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:o:suse:linux_enterprise_desktop:12:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:suse:suse_linux_enterprise_server:12:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:mutt:mutt:1.5.23:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:7.0:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:mageia:mageia:4.0:::::::*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:o:suse:linux_enterprise_desktop:12:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:suse:suse_linux_enterprise_server:12:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:mutt:mutt:1.5.23:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:7.0:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:mageia:mageia:4.0:::::::*

CVE-2014-9116

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools