{"id":"USN-2440-1","summary":"mutt vulnerability","details":"Jakub Wilk discovered that the write_one_header function in mutt\ndid not properly handle newline characters at the beginning of a\nheader. An attacker could specially craft an email to cause mutt to\ncrash, resulting in a denial of service.\n","modified":"2026-02-10T04:40:51Z","published":"2014-12-11T20:01:29Z","related":["UBUNTU-CVE-2014-9116"],"upstream":["CVE-2014-9116","UBUNTU-CVE-2014-9116"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2440-1"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-9116"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"mutt","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:14.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/mutt@1.5.21-6.4ubuntu2.1?arch=source&distro=trusty"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1.5.21-6.4ubuntu2.1"}]}],"versions":["1.5.21-6.4ubuntu1","1.5.21-6.4ubuntu2"],"ecosystem_specific":{"binaries":[{"binary_version":"1.5.21-6.4ubuntu2.1","binary_name":"mutt"},{"binary_version":"1.5.21-6.4ubuntu2.1","binary_name":"mutt-patched"}],"availability":"No subscription required"},"database_specific":{"cves_map":{"ecosystem":"Ubuntu:14.04:LTS","cves":[{"id":"CVE-2014-9116","severity":[{"score":"medium","type":"Ubuntu"}]}]},"source":"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/usn/USN-2440-1.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.3"}