CVE-2014-9116

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…

published December 2, 2014

CVSS
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EPSS
10%
Percentile
95.5
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.09694 · 95.5th percentile
Published
2014-12-02T16:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 02 DEC 16:00Z
    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…
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