CVE-2014-9116 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2014-9116?

CVE-2014-9116 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 2 Dec 2014. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official 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.

Weakness: CWE-119

Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-9116?

It affects 5 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Mageia Mageia, Mutt Mutt, Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop, Suse Suse Linux Enterprise Server.

How do I fix CVE-2014-9116?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2014-9116 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-9116 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2014-9116, DLA-100-1, DSA-3083-1, GHSA-mv99-5p2c-93vv, MGASA-2014-0509, UBUNTU-CVE-2014-9116 and 1 more.