Out-of-Bounds The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package mgetty  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU2004-MGETTY-650265
  • published10 Sept 2020
  • disclosed13 Sept 2018

Introduced: 13 Sep 2018

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

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:20.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream mgetty package and not the mgetty package as distributed by Ubuntu.

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.