Security Advisory
CVE-2018-16741
7.8
HIGH
Vulnerability Description
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.
Published Date
September 13, 2018
Official Source
NIST NVD Advisory