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Mgetty

14 CVEs tracked. None of them is in CISA KEV.

This hub aggregates every CVE we track for Mgetty, a product in the oss libraries space. Use it to gauge the current risk picture and drill into individual advisories.

Mgetty CVEs per month

Oct 2024 to Sep 2026. Point at a month, or focus the strip and use the arrow keys.
Mgetty CVEs per month
MonthCVEs
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2025-010
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2026-010
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2026-090

Severity

How the 14 CVEs score on CVSS. Severity is not exploitation: KEV is counted above.

  • High750%
  • Medium429%
  • Low321%

Latest CVEs

The 14 most recently published vulnerabilities affecting Mgetty.

  1. CVE-2019-1010189mgetty prior to version 1.2.1 is affected by: Infinite Loop. The impact is: DoS, the program does never terminates. The component is: g3/g32pbm.c. The attack vector is: Local, the user should open ...5.5
  2. CVE-2019-1010190mgetty prior to 1.2.1 is affected by: out-of-bounds read. The impact is: DoS, the program may crash if the memory is not mapped. The component is: putwhitespan() in g3/pbm2g3.c. The attack vector i...5.5
  3. CVE-2018-16741An 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 ...7.8
  4. CVE-2018-16743An 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.7.8
  5. CVE-2018-16745An issue was discovered in mgetty before 1.2.1. In fax_notify_mail() in faxrec.c, the mail_to parameter is not sanitized. It could allow a buffer overflow if long untrusted input can reach it.7.8
  6. CVE-2018-16742An issue was discovered in mgetty before 1.2.1. In contrib/scrts.c, a stack-based buffer overflow can be triggered via a command-line parameter.7.8
  7. CVE-2018-16744An issue was discovered in mgetty before 1.2.1. In fax_notify_mail() in faxrec.c, the mail_to parameter is not sanitized. It could allow for command injection if untrusted input can reach it, becau...7.8
  8. CVE-2008-4936faxspool in mgetty 1.1.36 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a /tmp/faxsp.##### temporary file.6.9
  9. CVE-2002-1392faxspool in mgetty before 1.1.29 uses a world-writable spool directory for outgoing faxes, which allows local users to modify fax transmission privileges.2.1
  10. CVE-2002-1391Buffer overflow in cnd-program for mgetty before 1.1.29 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via a Caller ID string with a long CallerName argument.7.5
  11. CVE-2003-0516cnd.c in mgetty 1.1.28 and earlier does not properly filter non-printable characters and quotes, which may allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in (1) calle...7.5
  12. CVE-2003-0517faxrunqd.in in mgetty 1.1.28 and earlier allows local users to overwrite files via a symlink attack on JOB files.5.5
  13. CVE-2001-0141mgetty 1.1.22 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack in some configurations.1.2
  14. CVE-2000-0691The faxrunq and faxrunqd in the mgetty package allows local users to create or modify arbitrary files via a symlink attack which creates a symlink in from /var/spool/fax/outgoing/.last_run to the t...2.1

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