CVE-2015-7978

high

Description

NTP before 4.2.8p6 and 4.3.0 before 4.3.90 allows a remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack exhaustion) via an ntpdc relist command, which triggers recursive traversal of the restriction list.

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/177507.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/176434.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00059.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00060.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00020.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00038.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00048.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00026.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00042.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-05/msg00114.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0780.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2583.html

https://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-16:09.ntp.asc

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-15

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20171031-0001/

https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/718152

http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20160127-ntpd

http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3629

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinapr2016-2952096.html

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034782

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3096-1

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2017-01-30

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

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

Severity: High