CVE-2018-16741 (GCVE-0-2018-16741)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2018-09-13 16:00
Modified
2024-08-05 10:32
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
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.
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