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SUSE: CVE-2018-16743: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

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SUSE: CVE-2018-16743: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
09/13/2018
Created
03/19/2019
Added
09/26/2018
Modified
10/22/2021

Description

An issue was discovered in mgetty before 1.2.1. In contrib/next-login/login.c, the command-line parameter username is passed unsanitized to strcpy(), which can cause a stack-based buffer overflow.

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-g3utils
  • suse-upgrade-mgetty
  • suse-upgrade-sendfax

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