Vulnerability Report

CVE-2014-9116

Title: Mutt Memory Corruption

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2014-9116.

CWE Category CWE-119

Published Date Dec 02, 2014

Modified Date May 06, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 5.0 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

3.51%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2014-9116: 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.

Impacted Vendors

mutt 1

Reference Links

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0509.html http://dev.mutt.org/trac/ticket/3716 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-01/msg00002.html http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3083 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:245 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:078 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/27/5 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/27/9 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71334 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031266 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=771125 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1168463 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-04 http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0509.html http://dev.mutt.org/trac/ticket/3716 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-01/msg00002.html http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3083 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:245 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:078 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/27/5 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/27/9 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71334 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031266 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=771125 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1168463 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-04

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

5.0

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2014-9116 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

May 06, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

May 06, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 12, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

December 02, 2014 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.