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CVE-2018-16741

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 command.

Risk Information

Base Score
7.8
MODERATE
Vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score
Exploitation Probability
0.646

Associated Vulnerability

VulnerabilityOS Platform
mgetty security update(DSA-4291-1) mgetty_1.1.36-3+deb9u1_i386.debLinux
mgetty security update(DSA-4291-1) mgetty_1.1.36-3+deb9u1_amd64.debLinux
SUSE-SU-2018:2979-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3 ) g3utils-1.1.36-58.3.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2018:2979-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3 ) g3utils-debuginfo-1.1.36-58.3.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2018:2979-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3 ) mgetty-1.1.36-58.3.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2018:2979-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3 ) mgetty-debuginfo-1.1.36-58.3.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2018:2979-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3 ) mgetty-debugsource-1.1.36-58.3.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2018:2850-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4 ) g3utils-1.1.36-28.3.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2018:2850-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4 ) mgetty-1.1.36-28.3.1.x86_64.rpmLinux

Patch Details

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References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234