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CVE-2014-9116

Published: Dec 2, 2014Updated: May 6, 2026 Sources: CVE List NVDCWE-119
NVD MITRE
5.0CVSSMEDIUM
EPSS Score
9.7%
Top 5.1%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploits
No Known Exploits
Remediation
Patch Available

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.

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV:NAC:LAu:NC:NI:NA:P
Exploitability
AV:NAccess Vector
Network
AC:LAccess Complexity
Low
Au:NAuthentication
None
Impact
C:NConfidentiality
None
I:NIntegrity
None
A:PAvailability
Partial
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Weaknesses

CWE-119

Affected Products

n/an/a
linux enterprise desktopsuse
On-premOS
Operating Systems / linux-distro
suse linux enterprise serversuse
On-premOS
Operating Systems / linux-distro
muttmutt
On-prem
Communications / email-server-client
debian linuxdebian
On-premOS
Operating Systems / linux-distro
susecommercialDEOperating Systems
muttoss-projectUSCommunicationsaka mutt mail client
debianoss-projectGBOperating Systemsaka debian gnu/linux
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Attack Graph

Products CVE Techniques Tactics

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Exploitability

Official Patch Available

MITRE ATT&CK

2 techniques
Initial Access
Privilege Escalation
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References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1168463
bugzilla.redhat.com
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=771125
bugs.debian.org
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-01/msg00002.html
lists.opensuse.org
and 10 more references View all →

Timeline

Published
Dec 2, 2014
Last Updated
May 6, 2026

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