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CVE-2018-16742

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2018-09-13 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-787

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.

Affected products

mgetty: before 1.2.1 — fixed in 1.2.1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: mgetty 1.2.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

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