CVE-2018-16744

Name	CVE-2018-16744
Description	An issue was discovered in mgetty before 1.2.1. In fax_notify_mail() in faxrec.c, the mail_to parameter is not sanitized. It could allow for command injection if untrusted input can reach it, because popen is used.
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

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
mgetty (PTS)	stretch (security), stretch	1.1.36-3+deb9u1	vulnerable
	buster	1.2.1-1	fixed
	bookworm, sid, bullseye	1.2.1-1.1	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

Notes

[stretch] - mgetty <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[jessie] - mgetty <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
https://www.x41-dsec.de/lab/advisories/x41-2018-007-mgetty/
Upstream commit: 750939dfcaea9aa93dcea99526c49da7cafafe7f (1.2.1)