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CVE-2014-9116

Publication date 2 December 2014

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

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.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
mutt 14.10 utopic
Fixed 1.5.23-1.1ubuntu0.2
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 1.5.21-6.4ubuntu2.1
12.04 LTS precise
Fixed 1.5.21-5ubuntu2.2
10.04 LTS lucid
Fixed 1.5.20-7ubuntu1.3

Notes

sbeattie

patches that updated SKIP_WSP ended up introducing regressions when displaying headers

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package Patch details
mutt