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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2018-16745: mgetty security update

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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2018-16745: mgetty security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
09/13/2018
Created
11/04/2020
Added
11/03/2020
Modified
11/03/2020

Description

An issue was discovered in mgetty before 1.2.1. In fax_notify_mail() in faxrec.c, the mail_to parameter is not sanitized. It could allow a buffer overflow if long untrusted input can reach it.

Solution(s)

  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp2-upgrade-mgetty

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