CVE-2015-5146

medium

Description

ntpd in ntp before 4.2.8p3 with remote configuration enabled allows remote authenticated users with knowledge of the configuration password and access to a computer entrusted to perform remote configuration to cause a denial of service (service crash) via a NULL byte in a crafted configuration directive packet.

References

Advisories
More

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201509-01

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1238136

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034168

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75589

http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3388

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/166992.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/169167.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/170926.html

http://bugs.ntp.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2853

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20180731-0003/

http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Main/SecurityNotice#March_2017_ntp_4_2_8p10_NTP_Secu

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2017-08-24

Updated: 2025-04-20

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 3.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.03371