SUSE: 2018:2894-1 Important: mgetty Command Injection Risk
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September 27, 2018
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:
Topics Covered
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 Module for Basesystem 15
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-2018:2894-1
Rating: important
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