CVE-2014-9116

Impact:
Low
Public Date:
2014-11-26
CWE:
CWE-119->CWE-476
Bugzilla:
1168463: CVE-2014-9116 mutt: incorrect use of mutt_substrdup() in write_one_header()

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

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.

Find out more about CVE-2014-9116 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score 2.6
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity High
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Partial

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Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 mutt Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 mutt Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 mutt Not affected

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