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CVE-2018-16743
HIGH · CVSS 7.8
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2018-09-13T16:29:00.640 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:44:45.360

Summary

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.

Affected products

mgetty_project — mgetty

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