CVE-2018-16743

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-16743
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-16743.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2018-16743
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Published
2018-09-13T16:29:00.640Z
Modified
2026-03-14T09:28:13.422360Z
Severity
  • 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

References

Affected packages

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Affected ranges

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-16743.json"
unresolved_ranges 
[
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "fixed": "1.2.1"
            }
        ]
    }
]