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High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Sep 13, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2018-16742

CVE-2018-16742

Description

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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Affected products

8

mgetty/mgettyllm-fuzzy
Range: <1.2.1
osv-coords7 versions
pkg:rpm/opensuse/mgetty&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweed pkg:rpm/suse/mgetty&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Desktop%2012%20SP3 pkg:rpm/suse/mgetty&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Basesystem%2015 pkg:rpm/suse/mgetty&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2011%20SP4 pkg:rpm/suse/mgetty&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP3 pkg:rpm/suse/mgetty&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2011%20SP4 pkg: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

1

www.x41-dsec.de/lab/advisories/x41-2018-007-mgettynvdExploitThird Party Advisory

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