CVE-2015-7978

CVE Details

Release Date:	2016-01-20
Impact:	Moderate	What is this?

Description

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

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NOTE: The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score:	4.3
Vector String:	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Version:	2.0
Attack Vector:	Network
Attack Complexity:	Medium
Authentication:	None
Confidentiality Impact:	None
Integrity Impact:	None
Availability Impact:	Partial

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Linux version 6 (ntp)	ELSA-2016-0780	2016-05-12
Oracle Linux version 7 (ntp)	ELSA-2016-2583	2016-11-09