FKIE_CVE-2014-9116
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2014-12-02 16:59 - Updated: 2026-06-17 00:17
Severity
Summary
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
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| suse | linux_enterprise_desktop | 12 | |
| suse | suse_linux_enterprise_server | 12 | |
| mutt | mutt | 1.5.23 | |
| debian | debian_linux | 7.0 | |
| mageia | mageia | 4.0 |
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