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CVSSv3

CVE-2018-16742

Published: 13/09/2018 Updated: 24/08/2020
CVSS v2 Base Score: 4.6 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
CVSS v3 Base Score: 7.8 | Impact Score: 5.9 | Exploitability Score: 1.8
VMScore: 409
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

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

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Debian Bug report logs - #910448 mgetty: CVE-2018-16741 Package: src:mgetty; Maintainer for src:mgetty is Andreas Barth <aba@ayousorg>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2018 13:21:02 UTC Severity: grave Tags: patch, security, upstream Found in version mgetty/1136-1 Fixed in ...
An issue was discovered in mgetty before 121 In contrib/scrtsc, a stack-based buffer overflow can be triggered via a command-line parameter ...