VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2018-16743

CVSS score7.8 HIGH
EPSS probability0.45%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2018-09-13
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-787: Out-of-bounds Write

Primary references