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SUSE: 2018:2850-1 Important: mgetty Command Injection and Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey September 25, 2018
Scroller Suse Esm H88
SUSE has released a critical security patch that tackles 5 vulnerabilities in mgetty, ensuring protection of server functionality and user data safety.
An update that fixes 5 vulnerabilities is now available

Summary

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) Patch Instructions:

References

#1108752 #1108756 #1108757 #1108761 #1108762

Cross- CVE-2018-16741 CVE-2018-16742 CVE-2018-16743

CVE-2018-16744 CVE-2018-16745

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4

SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP4

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: SUSE-SU-2018:2850-1
Rating: important

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