CVE-2014-9116

Linux Enterprise Desktop vulnerability

CVSS

5.0

EPSS

9.7%

EPSS pct

95th

Exploited

No known

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.

Affected vendor

Suse

Affected product

Linux Enterprise Desktop

CVSS vector

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

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within Memory Bounds

Published

2014-12-02

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 9.7% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 95% of all scored CVEs.

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