Out-of-Bounds Affecting mgetty package, versions <1.2.1-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (21st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-MGETTY-287468
  • published25 Sept 2018
  • disclosed13 Sept 2018

Introduced: 13 Sep 2018

CVE-2018-16745  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:unstable mgetty to version 1.2.1-1 or higher.

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:unstable relevant fixed versions and status.

An issue was discovered in mgetty before 1.2.1. In fax_notify_mail() in faxrec.c, the mail_to parameter is not sanitized. It could allow a buffer overflow if long untrusted input can reach it.