CVE-2018-16742 Information

Description

An issue was discovered in mgetty before 1.2.1. In contrib/scrts.c a stack-based buffer overflow can be triggered via a command-line parameter.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Reference

https://www.x41-dsec.de/lab/advisories/x41-2018-007-mgetty

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction Required

LOW

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

7.8