CVE-2018-16743
HIGH7.8EPSS 0.06%Published: 9/13/2018Modified: 4/28/2026
Also known as:DEBIAN-CVE-2018-16743
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.
Affected packages (1)
- Debian/mgettyfrom 0, < 1.2.1-1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |