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Debian: CVE-2018-16741: mgetty -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2018-16741: mgetty -- security update

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
09/11/2018
Created
03/19/2019
Added
09/12/2018
Modified
02/18/2020

Description

An issue was discovered in mgetty before 1.2.1. In fax/faxq-helper.c, the function do_activate() does not properly sanitize shell metacharacters to prevent command injection. It is possible to use the ||, &&, or > characters within a file created by the "faxq-helper activate <jobid>" command.

Solution(s)

  • debian-upgrade-mgetty

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