UBUNTU-CVE-2018-16743

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2018-16743

    Published: 13 Sept 2018Last Modified: 24 Oct 2025
    Upstream:
    CVE-2018-16743

    Summary:

    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: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-16743, https://www.x41-dsec.de/lab/advisories/x41-2018-007-mgetty/, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-16743

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: mgetty

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]+deb8u1build0.16.04.1?arch=source&distro=xenial

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    1.1.36-2.1
    1.1.36-2.1+deb8u1build0.16.04.1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High