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CVE-2014-9116 Detail

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.

Source:  MITRE
Description Last Modified:  12/02/2014

Impact

CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 5.0 MEDIUM
Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P) (V2 legend)
Impact Subscore: 2.9
Exploitability Subscore: 10.0

Access Vector (AV): Network
Access Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (AU): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Partial
Additional Information:
Allows disruption of service

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Hyperlink Resource
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0509.html Third Party Advisory
http://dev.mutt.org/trac/ticket/3716 Issue Tracking Vendor Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-01/msg00002.html Third Party Advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3083 Third Party Advisory
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:245 Broken Link
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:078 Broken Link
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/27/5 Exploit Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/27/9 Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71334 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031266 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=771125 Exploit Issue Tracking
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1168463 Exploit Issue Tracking
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-04

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2014-9116
NVD Published Date:
12/02/2014
NVD Last Modified:
10/30/2018