CVE-2019-1010189
mgetty: opening a specially crafted file leads to an infinite loop and DoS
Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.0
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Published · August 9, 2019
Updated · November 22, 2025
Description
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.
CVSS score applicability
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Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 3.0 · 5.5CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE-400 · Uncontrolled Resource Consumption