{"id":"CVE-2014-9116","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2014-9116","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T19:51:10.357Z","title":"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…","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.","published":"2014-12-02T16:59:08.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T00:17:47.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"2.0","score":5,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P"},"cwe":["CWE-119"],"affected":["suse/linux enterprise desktop","suse/suse linux enterprise server","mutt/mutt","debian/debian linux","mageia/mageia"],"epss":{"score":0.09694,"percentile":0.95472,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (9.69%). 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