{"action":"Upgrade mgetty to 1.2.1-1 or later.","affected":[{"fixed":"1.2.1-1","introduced":"0"}],"component":"mgetty","cve_ids":[],"ecosystem":"Debian","ecosystem_qualifier":"Debian:12","exploited":false,"fixed_versions":["1.2.1-1"],"id":"tcs_01M5ND4ZFWBGEPHDYDEMEV2M4A","modified_at":"2026-10-23T18:03:19.790472463Z","published_at":"2018-09-13T16:29:00.640Z","references":["https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2018-16743","https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-16743"],"severity":{"label":"high","score":7.8},"sources":[{"source":"osv","source_id":"DEBIAN-CVE-2018-16743","url":"https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2018-16743"}],"summary":"An issue was discovered in mgetty before 1.2.1. In contrib/next-login/login.c, the command-line parameter username is passed unsanitized to strcpy(), which can cause a stack-based buffer overflow."}