CVE - CVE-2014-9116

CVE-ID
CVE-2014-9116	Learn more at National Vulnerability Database (NVD) • CVSS Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings • CPE Information
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.
References
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BID:71334 URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71334 CONFIRM:http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0509.html CONFIRM:http://dev.mutt.org/trac/ticket/3716 CONFIRM:https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=771125 CONFIRM:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1168463 DEBIAN:DSA-3083 URL:http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3083 GENTOO:GLSA-201701-04 URL:https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-04 MANDRIVA:MDVSA-2014:245 URL:~~http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:245~~ (Obsolete source) MANDRIVA:MDVSA-2015:078 URL:~~http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:078~~ (Obsolete source) MLIST:[oss-security] 20141126 Re: CVE request: mutt: heap-based buffer overflow in mutt_substrdup() URL:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/27/9 MLIST:[oss-security] 20141127 CVE request: mutt: heap-based buffer overflow in mutt_substrdup() URL:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/27/5 SECTRACK:1031266 URL:http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031266 SUSE:SUSE-SU-2015:0012 URL:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-01/msg00002.html
Assigning CNA
MITRE Corporation
Date Record Created
20141126	Disclaimer: The record creation date may reflect when the CVE ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
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Assigned (20141126)
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