Security Advisory

CVE-2014-9116

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2014-12-02 16:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 13:33:13
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

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.