CVE-2014-9116

2014-12-0200:00:00

ubuntu.com

CVSS2

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

EPSS

0.015

Percentile

86.8%

JSON

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.

Bugs

<http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=771125>

Notes

Author	Note
sbeattie	patches that updated SKIP_WSP ended up introducing regressions when displaying headers

OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
ubuntu10.04noarchmutt< 1.5.20-7ubuntu1.3UNKNOWN
ubuntu12.04noarchmutt< 1.5.21-5ubuntu2.2UNKNOWN
ubuntu14.04noarchmutt< 1.5.21-6.4ubuntu2.1UNKNOWN
ubuntu14.10noarchmutt< 1.5.23-1.1ubuntu0.2UNKNOWN

OS	Version	Architecture	Package	Version	Filename
ubuntu	10.04	noarch	mutt	< 1.5.20-7ubuntu1.3	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	12.04	noarch	mutt	< 1.5.21-5ubuntu2.2	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	14.04	noarch	mutt	< 1.5.21-6.4ubuntu2.1	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	14.10	noarch	mutt	< 1.5.23-1.1ubuntu0.2	UNKNOWN