CVE-2018-16743

Name	CVE-2018-16743
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.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub code/issues, web search, more)
NVD severity	medium (attack range: local)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
mgetty (PTS)	jessie	1.1.36-2.1	vulnerable
	jessie (security)	1.1.36-2.1+deb8u1	vulnerable
	stretch (security), stretch	1.1.36-3+deb9u1	vulnerable
	buster, sid	1.2.1-1	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
mgetty	source	(unstable)	1.2.1-1	unimportant

Notes

contrib/next-login/ not built in Debian packaging
https://www.x41-dsec.de/lab/advisories/x41-2018-007-mgetty/
Upstream commit: 5feff135626b8dde886213ce0c99cc4349028a7e (1.2.1)