Out-of-bounds Write Affecting mgetty package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Debian security rating.

Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Not Defined
EPSS
0.05% (21st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN9-MGETTY-287458
  • published25 Sept 2018
  • disclosed13 Sept 2018

Introduced: 13 Sep 2018

CVE-2018-16743  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Debian:9 mgetty.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream mgetty package and not the mgetty package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:9 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.