CVE-2018-16743: Mgetty Project Mgetty

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Mgetty Project Mgetty: before 1.2.1 (fixed in 1.2.1)

Published 2018-09-13. Last modified 2026-06-17.