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CVE-2018-16742

HIGH · CVSS 7.8 EPSS 0.45%

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2018-09-13 · Last synced 2026-08-04

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CVE
CVE-2018-16742
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.8
EPSS
0.45%

Original NVD 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.