# HG changeset patch # User Kevin McCarthy # Date 1417472364 28800 # Node ID 0aebf1df43598b442ac75ae4fe17875351854db0 # Parent 5a86319adad0d17e4acaf8a580bfc9eb247547d0 Revert write_one_header() to skip space and tab. (closes #3716) This patch fixes CVE-2014-9116 in the stable branch. It reverts write_one_header() to the pre [f251d523ca5a] code for skipping whitespace. Thanks to Antonio Radici and Tomas Hoger for their analysis and patches to mutt, which this patch is based off of. diff -r 5a86319adad0 -r 0aebf1df4359 sendlib.c --- a/sendlib.c Mon Jan 05 18:28:59 2015 -0800 +++ b/sendlib.c Mon Dec 01 14:19:24 2014 -0800 @@ -1814,7 +1814,14 @@ { tagbuf = mutt_substrdup (start, t); /* skip over the colon separating the header field name and value */ - t = skip_email_wsp(t + 1); + ++t; + + /* skip over any leading whitespace (WSP, as defined in RFC5322) + * NOTE: skip_email_wsp() does the wrong thing here. + * See tickets 3609 and 3716. */ + while (*t == ' ' || *t == '\t') + t++; + valbuf = mutt_substrdup (t, end); } dprint(4,(debugfile,"mwoh: buf[%s%s] too long, "