Bug 1629971 (CVE-2018-16742) - CVE-2018-16742 mgetty: Stack-based buffer overflow in contrib/scrts.c triggered via command line parameter
Summary: CVE-2018-16742 mgetty: Stack-based buffer overflow in contrib/scrts.c trigger...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2018-16742
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1629972
Blocks: 1629987
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Reported: 2018-09-17 17:30 UTC by Pedro Sampaio
Modified: 2021-02-16 23:02 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: mgetty 1.2.1
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Last Closed: 2018-10-10 13:49:01 UTC
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Description Pedro Sampaio 2018-09-17 17:30:30 UTC 
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.

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https://www.x41-dsec.de/lab/advisories/x41-2018-007-mgetty
Comment 1 Pedro Sampaio 2018-09-17 17:30:57 UTC 
Created mgetty tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1629972]
Comment 3 Riccardo Schirone 2018-09-19 13:18:31 UTC 
Statement:

This issue did not affect the versions of mgetty as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6 and 7 as they did not include the scrts binary, which is found in the contribs directory of the upstream source code.
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