Alpine: multiple mutt packages: security update to 1.5.23-r0 (deprecated)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 401065

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

- 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. (CVE-2014-9116)

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 401065

Version: Revision 1.24

Type: Local

Family: Alpine Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 8/16/2023

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2014-9116

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/27/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/27/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-9116

BID: 71334

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