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FreeBSD : mutt -- denial of service via crafted mail message (c3d43001-8064-11e4-801f-0022156e8794)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 80238

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Synopsis

The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.

Description

NVD reports :

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.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=771125

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

http://www.nessus.org/u?58255fc7

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 80238

File Name: freebsd_pkg_c3d43001806411e4801f0022156e8794.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Published: 12/26/2014

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 4.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:ja-mutt, p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:mutt, p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:zh-mutt, cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/FreeBSD/release, Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/23/2014

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/26/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-9116

BID: 71334