PT-2018-13716 · Mgetty+2 · Mgetty+2

Eric Sesterhenn · Published 2018-09-13 · Updated 2024-08-14 · CVE-2018-16742

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.8

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions mgetty versions prior to 1.2.1

Description A stack-based buffer overflow issue can be triggered via a command-line parameter in the contrib/scrts.c file.

Recommendations For versions prior to 1.2.1, update to version 1.2.1 or later to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

Memory Corruption

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-787

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2020-3522

ALT-PU-2020-3533

ALT-PU-2024-11129

CVE-2018-16742

MGASA-2018-0402

OPENSUSE-SU-2018_2942-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2018_3108-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:11047-1

SUSE-SU-2018:2850-1

SUSE-SU-2018:2894-1

SUSE-SU-2018:2979-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Suse

Mgetty

References · 30

• 🔥 https://x41-dsec.de/lab/advisories/x41-2018-007-mgetty · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:11047-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-16742 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2018-16742 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-16742 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2018:2850-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2018:2979-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2018-16742 · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2018-0402.html · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-16742 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-16742 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2018-0402 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2018:2894-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-16742 · Security Note
• https://suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-16742 · Note