High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Sep 13, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2018-16745
CVE-2018-16745
Description
An issue was discovered in mgetty before 1.2.1. In fax_notify_mail() in faxrec.c, the mail_to parameter is not sanitized. It could allow a buffer overflow if long untrusted input can reach it.
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Affected products
7- osv-coords6 versionspkg: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
< 1.1.36-58.3.1+ 5 more
- (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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