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GLSA-202507-05 : NTP: Multiple Vulnerabilities

medium Nessus Plugin ID 241593

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Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-202507-05 (NTP: Multiple Vulnerabilities)

 Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in NTP. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

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

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

Solution

All NTP users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose >=net-misc/ntp-4.2.8_p16

See Also

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202507-05

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=904337

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 241593

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-202507-05.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 7/8/2025

Updated: 7/8/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.2

Temporal Score: 4.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-26555

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 5.6

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:gentoo:linux, p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:ntp

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/8/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/11/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-26551, CVE-2023-26552, CVE-2023-26553, CVE-2023-26554, CVE-2023-26555