CVE-2014-9116

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

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-04

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031266

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71334

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/27/9

http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3083

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-01/msg00002.html

http://dev.mutt.org/trac/ticket/3716

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0509.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3