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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.5

CVE-2019-1010190 json

mgetty prior to 1.2.1 is affected by: out-of-bounds read.

published 2019-07-24 7 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2019-1935

cvss
5.5
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.8%
EPSS 0.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 58%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • mgetty_project mgetty 1.2.1
  • mgetty Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1.2.1-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2019-1010190

  • mgetty Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 1.2.1-1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2019-1010190

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • mgetty SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP1 1.1.37-3.8.1
  • mgetty SLES for SAP 12 SP5, SLES for SAP 12 SP4, SLES 12 SP5 +1 more 1.1.36-58.9.2

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2020:0957-1SUSE-SU-2020:0853-1

  • mgetty openSUSE Leap 15.1 1.1.37-lp151.4.3.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2020:0506-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2019-1010190 updated cvss 5.6

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

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 mgetty Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 mgetty, mgetty-voice, mgetty-sendfax, mgetty-viewfax
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 mgetty, mgetty-voice, mgetty-sendfax, mgetty-viewfax
    affected: no fix available “Fix deferred”

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.84% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 58% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 5.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected products

  • mgetty mgetty

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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