faxrunqd.in in mgetty 1.1.28 and earlier allows local users to overwrite files via a symlink attack on JOB files.

mgetty: out-of-bounds read in function putwhitespan() in g3/pbm2g3.c causing denial of service

mgetty 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 is: Local, the victim must open a specially crafted file. The fixed version is: 1.2.1.

mgetty: opening a specially crafted file leads to an infinite loop and DoS

mgetty 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 a specially crafted file. The fixed version is: 1.2.1.

mgetty: Stack-based buffer overflow in fax_notify_mail() in faxrec.c

An 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.

mgetty: Command injection in faxrec.c

An 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, because popen is used.

mgetty: Stack-based buffer overflow with long username in contrib/next-login/login.c

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.

mgetty: Stack-based buffer overflow in contrib/scrts.c triggered via command line parameter

An 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.

mgetty: command injection in faxrunq

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.