Security Advisory

CVE-2018-16743

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2018-09-13 16:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-05 10:32:53
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

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.