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CVE-2014-9116

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

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.

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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

suse
commercial·DE
linux enterprise desktopOn-premOS
Operating Systems / linux-distro
suse linux enterprise serverOn-premOS
Operating Systems / linux-distro
mutt
oss-project·USaka mutt mail client
muttOn-prem
Communications / email-server-client
debian
oss-project·GBaka debian gnu/linux
debian linuxOn-premOS
Operating Systems / linux-distro
mageia
oss-projectaka mageia linux
mageiaOn-prem
Operating Systems / linux-distro
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Exploitability

Official Patch Available
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Attack Graph

Products CVE Techniques Tactics

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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
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