CVE-2018-16741

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Sep 13, 2018
Updated: Aug 5, 2024
Reserved: Sep 9, 2018

Description

An issue was discovered in mgetty before 1.2.1. In fax/faxq-helper.c, the function do_activate() does not properly sanitize shell metacharacters to prevent command injection. It is possible to use the ||, &&, or > characters within a file created by the "faxq-helper activate <jobid>" command.

Scores

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

https://www.x41-dsec.de/lab/advisories/x41-2018-007-mgetty
DSA-4291vendor-advisory
[debian-lts-announce] 20180912 [SECURITY] [DLA 1502-1] mgetty security updatemailing-list

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