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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2018-09-13T16:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-05T10:32:53.990Z

Reserved: 2018-09-09T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2018-16743

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2018-09-13T16:29:00.640

Modified: 2024-11-21T03:53:16.737

Link: CVE-2018-16743

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2018-09-13T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2018-16743 - Bugzilla