CVE-2014-9116

CVSS V2 Medium 5 CVSS V3 None
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.
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2014-9116
  • Assigner
  • cve@mitre.org
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Modified
  • Published Version
  • 2014-12-02T16:59:08
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2018-10-30T16:27:37
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-119 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/119.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
cpe:2.3:o:suse:linux_enterprise_desktop:12:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:suse:suse_linux_enterprise_server:12:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:mutt:mutt:1.5.23:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:mageia:mageia:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
  • Access Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Access Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Authentication
  • NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • NONE
  • Integrity Impact
  • NONE
  • Availability Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Base Score
  • 5
  • Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 10
  • Impact Score
  • 2.9
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1168463 Exploit Issue Tracking
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71334 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
http://dev.mutt.org/trac/ticket/3716 Issue Tracking Vendor Advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3083 Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/27/9 Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031266 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/27/5 Exploit Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=771125 Exploit Issue Tracking
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-01/msg00002.html Third Party Advisory
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:245 Broken Link
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0509.html Third Party Advisory
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:078 Broken Link
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-04
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-9116
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-9116
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 17:54:48 Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-02 02:30:58 2014-12-02T16:59Z 2014-12-02T16:59:08 CVE Published Date updated
2022-12-02 02:30:58 2018-10-30T16:27:37 CVE Modified Date updated
2022-12-02 02:30:58 Modified Vulnerability Status updated