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openSUSE Leap 42.3: 2018:3108-1 Moderate: Mgetty Command Injection

opensuse
Calendar Grey October 12, 2018
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Stay informed with essential updates for mgetty tackling various vulnerabilities such as command injections and buffer overflow threats. Take immediate action!
An update that fixes 5 vulnerabilities is now available.

Description

This update for mgetty fixes the following issues:

- CVE-2018-16741: Fixed a command injection in fax/faxq-helper.c

(boo#1108752)

- CVE-2018-16742: Stack-based buffer overflow in contrib/scrts.c triggered

via command line parameter (boo#1108762)

- CVE-2018-16743: Stack-based buffer overflow with long username in

contrib/next-login/login.c (boo#1108761)

- CVE-2018-16744: Command injection in faxrec.c (boo#1108757)

- CVE-2018-16745: Stack-based buffer overflow in fax_notify_mail() in

faxrec.c (boo#1108756)

- sets maximum length of a string to prevent buffer overflow and thus

possible command injection

- The obsolete contrib/scrts.c tool was deleted, which contained a buffer

overflow.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate buffer overflow system update mgetty command injection openSUSE

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 42.3:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2018-1144=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (i586 x86_64):

g3utils-1.1.36-65.3.1

g3utils-debuginfo-1.1.36-65.3.1

mgetty-1.1.36-65.3.1

mgetty-debuginfo-1.1.36-65.3.1

mgetty-debugsource-1.1.36-65.3.1

sendfax-1.1.36-65.3.1

sendfax-debuginfo-1.1.36-65.3.1

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-2018:3108-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.3

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate buffer overflow system update mgetty command injection openSUSE

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