Stack-based Buffer Overflow in mgetty's login.c

CVE-2018-16743 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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.

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