Oval Definition:oval:com.ubuntu.cosmic:def:201816743000
Revision Date:2018-09-13Version:1
Title:CVE-2018-16743 on Ubuntu 18.10 (cosmic) - low.
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.
Family:unixClass:vulnerability
Status:Reference(s):CVE-2018-16743
Platform(s):Ubuntu 18.10
Product(s):
Definition Synopsis
  • Ubuntu 18.10 (cosmic) is installed.
  • AND The vulnerability of the 'mgetty' package in cosmic is not known (status: 'needs-triage'). It is pending evaluation.
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