CVE-2018-16743

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-2018-16743

Severity

HIGH

CVSS

7.8

EPSS

0.45%

Original NVD 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.