CVE-2018-16743

An issue was discovered in mgetty before 1.2.1

published September 13, 2018

CVSS
—
EPSS
0%
Percentile
37.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00448 · 37.9th percentile
Published
2018-09-13T16:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 13 SEP 16:00Z
    An issue was discovered in mgetty before 1.2.1
    cvelistv5