USN-2440-1

Jakub Wilk discovered that the writeoneheader 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.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:14.04:LTS / mutt

Package

Name: mutt
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/mutt@1.5.21-6.4ubuntu2.1?arch=source&distro=trusty

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

1.5.21-6.4ubuntu2.1

Affected versions

1.*

1.5.21-6.4ubuntu1

1.5.21-6.4ubuntu2

Ecosystem specific

{
    "availability": "No subscription required",
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_version": "1.5.21-6.4ubuntu2.1",
            "binary_name": "mutt"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "1.5.21-6.4ubuntu2.1",
            "binary_name": "mutt-patched"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

cves_map

{
    "cves": [
        {
            "id": "CVE-2014-9116",
            "severity": [
                {
                    "type": "Ubuntu",
                    "score": "medium"
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:14.04:LTS"
}