github - ghsa-g9c8-38wc-phh5

ghsa-g9c8-38wc-phh5

Vulnerability from github

Published

2022-05-13 01:50

Modified

2022-05-13 01:50

Severity ?

7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

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 " command.

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  "id": "GHSA-g9c8-38wc-phh5",
  "modified": "2022-05-13T01:50:26Z",
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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.

References

URL

Tags

	https://www.x41-dsec.de/lab/advisories/x41-2018-007-mgetty	x_refsource_MISC
	https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4291	vendor-advisory, x_refsource_DEBIAN
	https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00012.html	mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	n/a	n/a	Version: n/a

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