CVE-2014-9116

mediumpriority · track · 23EPSS 0.097 · 95 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

9.69% (95th) EPSS

CVSS 5 · medium

Is it mine?

6 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

3 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

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.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

5.0

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v2.05mediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 10 · impact 2.9

v2.04.3mediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-119USprimary

affected products (6)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
debian debian linux= 7.0nvdUScpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mageia mageia= 4.0nvdUScpe:2.3:o:mageia:mageia:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mutt mutt= 1.5.23nvdUScpe:2.3:a:mutt:mutt:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
suse linux enterprise desktop= 12nvdUScpe:2.3:o:suse:linux_enterprise_desktop:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
suse suse linux enterprise server= 12nvdUScpe:2.3:o:suse:suse_linux_enterprise_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

also known as (3)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

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cnnvd enisa_euvd nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2014-12-02modified 2026-06-17

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references (29)

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