High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Sep 13, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2018-16741
CVE-2018-16741
Description
An issue was discovered in mgetty before 1.2.1. In fax/faxq-helper.c, the function do_activate() does not properly sanitize shell metacharacters to prevent command injection. It is possible to use the ||, &&, or > characters within a file created by the "faxq-helper activate " command.
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Affected products
8- osv-coords7 versionspkg:rpm/opensuse/mgetty&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweedpkg:rpm/suse/mgetty&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Desktop%2012%20SP3pkg:rpm/suse/mgetty&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Basesystem%2015pkg:rpm/suse/mgetty&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2011%20SP4pkg:rpm/suse/mgetty&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP3pkg:rpm/suse/mgetty&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2011%20SP4pkg:rpm/suse/mgetty&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP3
< 1.2.1-6.2+ 6 more
- (no CPE)range: < 1.2.1-6.2
- (no CPE)range: < 1.1.36-58.3.1
- (no CPE)range: < 1.1.37-3.3.2
- (no CPE)range: < 1.1.36-28.3.1
- (no CPE)range: < 1.1.36-58.3.1
- (no CPE)range: < 1.1.36-28.3.1
- (no CPE)range: < 1.1.36-58.3.1
Patches
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References
3- www.x41-dsec.de/lab/advisories/x41-2018-007-mgettynvdExploitThird Party Advisory
- lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00012.htmlnvdMailing ListThird Party Advisory
- www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4291nvdThird Party Advisory
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