Name: CVE-2018-16742: Out-of-bounds Write
Creator: Rapid7
Published: 2018-09-13T00:00:00.000Z
License: https://www.rapid7.com/legal/website-terms-of-use/
Keywords: CVE, CVE-2018-16742, CWE-787, CVSS 7.8, EPSS 0.00448

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.

CVSS Details

CVSS 3.1 Base Score: 7.8
CVSS 3.0 Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Covered by Rapid7

Product	Vendor Advisory	Solution File	Added	Published
Debian	—	Upgrade mgetty	Jul 30, 2024	Sep 13, 2018
Suse	—	Upgrade g3utilsUpgrade mgettyUpgrade sendfax	Sep 26, 2018	Sep 13, 2018

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