| Name | CVE-2014-9116 |
| 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-100-1, DSA-3083-1 |
| Debian Bugs | 771125 |
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| mutt (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 1.5.23-3+deb8u7 | fixed |
| stretch (security) | 1.7.2-1+deb9u6 | fixed | |
| stretch (lts), stretch | 1.7.2-1+deb9u7 | fixed | |
| buster (security), buster, buster (lts) | 1.10.1-2.1+deb10u7 | fixed | |
| bullseye (security), bullseye | 2.0.5-4.1+deb11u3 | fixed | |
| bookworm | 2.2.12-0.1~deb12u1 | fixed | |
| bookworm (security) | 2.2.9-1+deb12u1 | fixed | |
| sid, trixie | 2.2.13-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| mutt | source | squeeze | 1.5.20-9+squeeze4 | DLA-100-1 | ||
| mutt | source | wheezy | 1.5.21-6.2+deb7u3 | DSA-3083-1 | ||
| mutt | source | (unstable) | 1.5.23-2 | 771125 |
Detailed analysis in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1168463#c4
Upstream bugreport: http://dev.mutt.org/trac/ticket/3716