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CVE-2014-9116

The write_one_header function in mutt 1.5.23 does not properly handle newline characters at the beginning of a header, w

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.

MEDIUM · CVSS 5 EPSS 0.03515
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Affected Products & Versions

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muttall versions
debian linuxall versions
mageiaall versions

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MEDIUM · CVSS v2 (legacy) · cve@mitre.org
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v2 Vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Published to NVD02 Dec 2014 · 04:59 PM

Vendor Advisories

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suse-csafopenSUSE-SU-2024:10198-1
suse-csafSUSE-SU-2019:1196-1
suse-csafSUSE-SU-2018:2084-1
suse-csafSUSE-SU-2018:2085-1
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References & Sources

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Source URLs (vendor pages, mailing lists, write-ups). Exploit/PoC links are in their own section above to avoid duplication.
http://dev.mutt.org/trac/ticket/3716Issue TrackingVendor Advisory
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