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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.

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
0.063

Associated Vulnerability

VulnerabilityOS Platform
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