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openSUSE Leap 15.0: 2018:2942-1 Important mgetty Command Injection Fix

opensuse
Calendar Grey September 28, 2018
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
This patch resolves 5 critical security loopholes affecting mgetty in openSUSE, safeguarding system functionality and reliability.
An update that fixes 5 vulnerabilities is now available.

Description

This update for mgetty fixes the following issues:

- CVE-2018-16741: The function do_activate() did not properly sanitize

shell metacharacters to prevent command injection (bsc#1108752).

- CVE-2018-16745: The mail_to parameter was not sanitized, leading to a

buffer

overflow if long untrusted input reached it (bsc#1108756).

- CVE-2018-16744: The mail_to parameter was not sanitized, leading to

command injection if untrusted input reached reach it (bsc#1108757).

- CVE-2018-16742: Prevent stack-based buffer overflow that could have been

triggered via a command-line parameter (bsc#1108762).

- CVE-2018-16743: The command-line parameter username wsa passed

unsanitized to strcpy(), which could have caused a stack-based buffer

overflow (bsc#1108761).

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15:Update update project.

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Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods

like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 15.0:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2018-1080=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.0 (x86_64):

g3utils-1.1.37-lp150.2.3.1

g3utils-debuginfo-1.1.37-lp150.2.3.1

mgetty-1.1.37-lp150.2.3.1

mgetty-debuginfo-1.1.37-lp150.2.3.1

mgetty-debugsource-1.1.37-lp150.2.3.1

sendfax-1.1.37-lp150.2.3.1

sendfax-debuginfo-1.1.37-lp150.2.3.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-16741.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-16742.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-16743.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-16744.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-16745.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1108752

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1108756

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1108757

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1108761

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1108762

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2018:2942-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.0

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