UBUNTU-CVE-2018-16743
- Source
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-16743
- Import Source
- https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2018/UBUNTU-CVE-2018-16743.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2018-16743
- Upstream
- Published
- 2018-09-13T16:29:00Z
- Modified
- 2025-07-18T16:44:45Z
- 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
- Ubuntu - low
- 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
Ubuntu:Pro:16.04:LTS / mgetty
Package
- Name
- mgetty
- Purl
- pkg:deb/ubuntu/mgetty@1.1.36-2.1+deb8u1build0.16.04.1?arch=source&distro=esm-apps/xenial