CVE-2014-9116

Name	CVE-2014-9116
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.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
References	DLA-100-1, DSA-3083-1
Debian Bugs	771125

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
mutt (PTS)	bullseye (security), bullseye	2.0.5-4.1+deb11u3	fixed
	bookworm	2.2.12-0.1~deb12u1	fixed
	bookworm (security)	2.2.9-1+deb12u1	fixed
	sid, trixie	2.2.13-1	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Origin	Debian Bugs
mutt	source	squeeze	1.5.20-9+squeeze4	DLA-100-1
mutt	source	wheezy	1.5.21-6.2+deb7u3	DSA-3083-1
mutt	source	(unstable)	1.5.23-2		771125

Detailed analysis in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1168463#c4
Upstream bugreport: http://dev.mutt.org/trac/ticket/3716