CVE-2018-16743 Information

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.

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