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CVE-2018-16741

N/A
Published: September 13, 2018 at 04:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 01:44 AM UTC
2 products affected across 2 vendorsDebian LinuxMgetty

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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 1%

Description

An issue was discovered in mgetty before 1.2.1. In fax/faxq-helper.c, the function do_activate() does not properly sanitize shell metacharacters to prevent command injection. It is possible to use the ||, &&, or > characters within a file created by the "faxq-helper activate <jobid>" command.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Debian Linux· Debiandrupal
95%
8.09.0
Mgetty· Mgetty Project
95%
v < 1.2.1
Affected range stops below 1.2.1, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

Patch and advisory references

References (3)

Mailing Listx_refsource_MLISTThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00012.html
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4291
x_refsource_MISCExploitThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://www.x41-dsec.de/lab/advisories/x41-2018-007-mgetty

CVSS

7.2HIGH[email protected]
Confidentiality
COMPLETE
Integrity
COMPLETE
Availability
COMPLETE
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-78

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