CVE-2014-9116

Public Exploit

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.

Category

5.0
CVSS
Severity: Medium
CVSS 2.0 •
EPSS 1.99% Top 20%
Vendor Advisory opensuse.org Vendor Advisory mandriva.com Vendor Advisory gentoo.org Vendor Advisory debian.org Vendor Advisory mandriva.com Vendor Advisory mutt.org
Affected: n/a n/a
Published at:
Updated at:

References

Link Tags
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1168463 issue tracking exploit
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=771125 issue tracking exploit
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-01/msg00002.html third party advisory vendor advisory
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031266 vdb entry third party advisory
http://dev.mutt.org/trac/ticket/3716 issue tracking vendor advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/27/5 mailing list exploit third party advisory
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:078 vendor advisory broken link
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0509.html third party advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-04 vendor advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/27/9 third party advisory mailing list
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71334 vdb entry third party advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3083 third party advisory vendor advisory
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:245 vendor advisory broken link

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the severity of CVE-2014-9116?
CVE-2014-9116 has been scored as a medium severity vulnerability.
How to fix CVE-2014-9116?
To fix CVE-2014-9116, make sure you are using an up-to-date version of the affected component(s) by checking the vendor release notes. As for now, there are no other specific guidelines available.
Is CVE-2014-9116 being actively exploited in the wild?
It is possible that CVE-2014-9116 is being exploited or will be exploited in a near future based on public information. According to its EPSS score, there is a ~2% probability that this vulnerability will be exploited by malicious actors in the next 30 days.
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