{"id":"CVE-2014-9116","details":"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overflow in the mutt_substrdup function.","modified":"2026-01-27T04:05:47.983333Z","published":"2014-12-02T16:59:08Z","withdrawn":"2026-01-27T04:05:47.983333Z","related":["MGASA-2014-0509","SUSE-SU-2015:0758-1","SUSE-SU-2018:2084-1","SUSE-SU-2018:2085-1","SUSE-SU-2019:1196-1","openSUSE-SU-2024:10198-1"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0509.html"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"http://dev.mutt.org/trac/ticket/3716"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-01/msg00002.html"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3083"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:245"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:078"},{"type":"EVIDENCE","url":"http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/27/5"},{"type":"ARTICLE","url":"http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/27/9"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71334"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031266"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-04"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=771125"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1168463"}],"schema_version":"1.7.3"}