ntpd will crash if the server is not NTS-enabled (no certificate) and it receives an NTS-enabled client request (mode 3).

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - ntpd will crash if the server is not NTS-enabled (no certificate) and it receives an NTS-enabled client     request (mode 3). (CVE-2023-4012)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

An update of the ntpsec package has been released.

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

  - ntpd will crash if the server is not NTS-enabled (no certificate) and it receives an NTS-enabled client
    request (mode 3). (CVE-2023-4012)

The remote Fedora 38 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-26cbce3854 advisory.

    Security fix for CVE-2023-4012

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Fedora 37 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-9fa8f29bb7 advisory.

    Security fix for CVE-2023-4012

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Debian 12 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the dsa-5466 advisory.

  - ntpd will crash if the server is not NTS-enabled (no certificate) and it receives an NTS-enabled client     request (mode 3). (CVE-2023-4012)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
258782	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2023-4012	Nessus	Misc.	high
204318	Photon OS 5.0: Ntpsec PHSA-2024-5.0-0195	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	high
405897	Alpine: multiple ntpsec packages: security update to 1.2.2a-r0	Tenable Cloud Security	Alpine Linux Local Security Checks	high
405897	Alpine: multiple ntpsec packages: security update to 1.2.2a-r0	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	Alpine Linux Local Security Checks	high
179710	Fedora 38 : ntpsec (2023-26cbce3854)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
179708	Fedora 37 : ntpsec (2023-9fa8f29bb7)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
179365	Debian DSA-5466-1 : ntpsec - security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	high

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