Executive Summary

Summary
Title Mutt: Heap-based buffer overflow
Informations
Name GLSA-201701-04 First vendor Publication 2017-01-01
Vendor Gentoo Last vendor Modification 2017-01-01
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Synopsis

A heap-based buffer overflow in Mutt might allow remote attackers to cause a Denial of Service condition.

Background

Mutt is a small but very powerful text-based mail client.

Description

A heap-based buffer overflow was discovered in Mutt's mutt_substrdup function.

Impact

A remote attacker could cause a Denial of Service condition.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Mutt users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=mail-client/mutt-1.5.23-r5"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2014-9116 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-9116

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-04

Original Source

Url : http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201701-04.xml

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-119 Failure to Constrain Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:28345
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:28345
Title: DSA-3083-1 -- mutt security update
Description: A flaw was discovered in mutt, a text-based mailreader. A specially crafted mail header could cause mutt to crash, leading to a denial of service condition.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): DSA-3083-1
CVE-2014-9116
 Version: 3
Platform(s): Debian GNU/Linux 7.0
Debian GNU/kFreeBSD 7.0
 Product(s): mutt
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:28366
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:28366
Title: USN-2440-1 -- Mutt vulnerability
Description: Jakub Wilk discovered that the write_one_header function in mutt did not properly handle newline characters at the beginning of a header. An attacker could specially craft an email to cause mutt to crash, resulting in a denial of service.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): USN-2440-1
CVE-2014-9116
 Version: 3
Platform(s): Ubuntu 14.10
Ubuntu 14.04
Ubuntu 12.04
Ubuntu 10.04
 Product(s): mutt
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 1
Os 1
Os 1
Os 1
Os 1

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2017-01-03 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201701-04.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-05-20 Name : The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_SU-2015-0012-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-04-24 Name : The remote SuSE 11 host is missing a security update.
File : suse_11_mutt-150310.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-04-22 Name : The remote Slackware host is missing a security update.
File : Slackware_SSA_2015-111-07.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-03-30 Name : The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : mandriva_MDVSA-2015-078.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-02-16 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2014-16494.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-02-16 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2014-16782.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-12-26 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.
File : freebsd_pkg_c3d43001806411e4801f0022156e8794.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-12-16 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2014-779.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-12-15 Name : The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : mandriva_MDVSA-2014-245.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-12-15 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : ubuntu_USN-2440-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-12-01 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-3083.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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Date Informations
2017-01-04 13:23:10
  • Multiple Updates
2017-01-01 17:20:35
  • First insertion