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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-4291-1 mgetty -- security update

Date Reported:

11 Sep 2018

Affected Packages:

mgetty

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2018-16741.

More information:

Two input sanitization failures have been found in the faxrunq and faxq binaries in mgetty, a smart modem getty replacement. An attacker could leverage them to insert commands via shell metacharacters in jobs id and have them executed with the privilege of the faxrunq/faxq user.

For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 1.1.36-3+deb9u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your mgetty packages.

For the detailed security status of mgetty please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/mgetty