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CVE-2014-9116
CVE-2014-9116
PUBLISHED
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.
EPSS 3.51% · 87.9th percentile
Risk Scores
EPSS Score
3.51%
87.9th percentile
Affected Products
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu:14.04:LTS | mutt | 1.5.21-6.4ubuntu2, 1.5.21-6.4ubuntu1, 0 |
Exploit Intelligence
- MDVSA-2015:078 (circl)
- SUSE-SU-2015:0012 (circl)
- 1031266 (circl)
- http://dev.mutt.org/trac/ticket/3716 (circl)
- http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0509.html (circl)
- GLSA-201701-04 (circl)
- [oss-security] 20141126 Re: CVE request: mutt: heap-based buffer overflow in mutt_substrdup() (circl)
- 71334 (circl)
- DSA-3083 (circl)
- MDVSA-2014:245 (circl)
…and 3 more exploits
Timeline
- Dec 2, 2014 CVE Published
- Feb 4, 2022 EPSS Score
- Mar 29, 2022 EPSS Score
- May 20, 2022 EPSS Score
- Sep 3, 2022 EPSS Score
- Oct 26, 2022 EPSS Score
- Dec 18, 2022 EPSS Score
- Feb 8, 2023 EPSS Score
- Apr 2, 2023 EPSS Score
- May 25, 2023 EPSS Score
- Jul 16, 2023 EPSS Score
- Sep 7, 2023 EPSS Score
References
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-9116 third-party-advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1168463#c4 third-party-advisory
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2440-1 vendor-advisory
- http://dev.mutt.org/trac/ticket/3716 third-party-advisory
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-9116 third-party-advisory