CVE-2018-16743

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Source

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-16743

Import Source

https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-16743.json

JSON Data

https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2018-16743

Related

Published

2018-09-13T16:29:00Z

Modified

2024-11-12T05:00:26Z

Severity

7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator

Summary

[none]

Details

An issue was discovered in mgetty before 1.2.1. In contrib/next-login/login.c, the command-line parameter username is passed unsanitized to strcpy(), which can cause a stack-based buffer overflow.

References

Affected packages

Debian:11 / mgetty

Package

Name: mgetty
Purl: pkg:deb/debian/mgetty?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

1.2.1-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "unimportant"
}

Debian:12 / mgetty

Package

Name: mgetty
Purl: pkg:deb/debian/mgetty?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

1.2.1-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "unimportant"
}

Debian:13 / mgetty

Package

Name: mgetty
Purl: pkg:deb/debian/mgetty?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

1.2.1-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "unimportant"
}