CVE-2018-16741
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.
- Score
- CVSS 3.0 7.8 High
- Status
- Modified - cve@mitre.org
- Published
- 2018-09-13
- Last modified
- 2024-08-05
- Weaknesses
- CWE-78
Affected products
References
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00012.html
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4291
- https://www.x41-dsec.de/lab/advisories/x41-2018-007-mgetty
