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.
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References | () http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0509.html - Third Party Advisory | |
References | () http://dev.mutt.org/trac/ticket/3716 - Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory | |
References | () http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-01/msg00002.html - Third Party Advisory | |
References | () http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3083 - Third Party Advisory | |
References | () http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:245 - Broken Link | |
References | () http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:078 - Broken Link | |
References | () http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/27/5 - Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory | |
References | () http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/27/9 - Mailing List, Third Party Advisory | |
References | () http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71334 - Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry | |
References | () http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031266 - Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry | |
References | () https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=771125 - Exploit, Issue Tracking | |
References | () https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1168463 - Exploit, Issue Tracking | |
References | () https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-04 - |
Information
Published : 2014-12-02 16:59
Updated : 2024-11-21 02:20
NVD link : CVE-2014-9116
Mitre link : CVE-2014-9116
CVE.ORG link : CVE-2014-9116
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Products Affected
mutt
- mutt
suse
- linux_enterprise_desktop
- suse_linux_enterprise_server
mageia
- mageia
debian
- debian_linux
CWE
CWE-119
Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer