CVEvulnerability

CVE-2003-0516

7.5 HIGH Published 2003-08-18 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2003-08-18
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

cnd.c in mgetty 1.1.28 and earlier does not properly filter non-printable characters and quotes, which may allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in (1) caller ID or (2) caller name strings.

Affected configurations

• gert doering mgetty (<= 1.1.28)

References