gsd-2014-9116
Vulnerability from gsd
Modified
2023-12-13 01:22
Details
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.
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Aliases
CVE-2014-9116


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      "lastModifiedDate": "2018-10-30T16:27Z",
      "publishedDate": "2014-12-02T16:59Z"
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