CVE-2014-9116

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.

CVSS v2.0 5.0 MEDIUM

5.0^/10

CVSS v2.0 : MEDIUM

Vector : AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Exploitability : 10.0 / Impact : 2.9

Access Vector NETWORK

Access Complexity LOW

Authentication NONE

Confidentiality Impact NONE

Integrity Impact NONE

Availability Impact PARTIAL

References

Link	Resource
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1168463	Exploit Issue Tracking
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71334	Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
http://dev.mutt.org/trac/ticket/3716	Issue Tracking Vendor Advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3083	Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/27/9	Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031266	Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/27/5	Exploit Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=771125	Exploit Issue Tracking
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-01/msg00002.html	Third Party Advisory
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:245	Broken Link
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0509.html	Third Party Advisory
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:078	Broken Link
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-04

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Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

OR	cpe:2.3:o:suse:linux_enterprise_desktop:12:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:suse:suse_linux_enterprise_server:12:::::::*

Configuration 2 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:mutt:mutt:1.5.23:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Configuration 3 (hide)

cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Configuration 4 (hide)

cpe:2.3:o:mageia:mageia:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Information

Published : 2014-12-02 08:59

Updated : 2018-10-30 09:27

NVD link : CVE-2014-9116

Mitre link : CVE-2014-9116

JSON object : View

CWE

CWE-119

Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

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Products Affected

suse

linux_enterprise_desktop
suse_linux_enterprise_server

mageia

mageia

mutt

mutt

debian

debian_linux

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