CVE-2018-16743

PoC —

CVSS 3.0

7.8 high

EPSS

<1%p38

Published

Sep 13, 2018 (Sep 13, 2018)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

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.

Vendors: mgetty project
Products: mgetty
Weakness: CWE-787
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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