CVEvulnerability

CVE-2018-16742

7.8 HIGH Published 2018-09-13 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2018-09-13
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-787

Description

An issue was discovered in mgetty before 1.2.1. In contrib/scrts.c, a stack-based buffer overflow can be triggered via a command-line parameter.

Affected configurations

• mgetty project mgetty (< 1.2.1)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write weakness

References