What is CVE-2014-9116?

CVE-2014-9116 is a vulnerability in Mageia, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. Published 2014-12-02.

Is CVE-2014-9116 known to be exploited?

1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Buffer overflow in Mageia

CVE-2014-9116

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.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

Published 2014-12-02 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v2 metric

CVSS v2 base score 5.0 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.097 (95.4th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 95th percentile — 95.4% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.097 · newest: 0.097 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Mageia — versions 4.0
Mutt — versions 1.5.23
Debian Linux — versions 7.0
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop — versions 12
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server — versions 12

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

Public proof-of-concept exploits

mrash/afl-cve

References

bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi (Exploit, Issue Tracking)
bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi (Exploit, Issue Tracking)
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-01/msg00002.html (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
www.securitytracker.com/id/1031266 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
dev.mutt.org/trac/ticket/3716 (Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory)
www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/27/5 (mailing-list, Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
www.mandriva.com/security/advisories (vendor-advisory, Broken Link)
advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0509.html (Third Party Advisory)
security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-04 (vendor-advisory)
www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/27/9 (mailing-list, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2014-9116?: CVE-2014-9116 is a vulnerability in Mageia, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. Published 2014-12-02.
Is CVE-2014-9116 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.