| Name | 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| mgetty (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 1.1.36-2.1+deb8u1 | vulnerable |
| stretch (security), stretch (lts), stretch | 1.1.36-3+deb9u1 | vulnerable |
| buster | 1.2.1-1 | fixed |
| bullseye | 1.2.1-1.1 | fixed |
| sid, trixie, bookworm | 1.2.1-1.2 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| mgetty | source | (unstable) | 1.2.1-1 | unimportant | | |
Notes
contrib/next-login/ not built in Debian packaging
https://www.x41-dsec.de/lab/advisories/x41-2018-007-mgetty/
Upstream commit: 5feff135626b8dde886213ce0c99cc4349028a7e (1.2.1)