CVE-2015-7978

CVE Details

Release Date:2016-01-20

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.

See more information about CVE-2015-7978 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD


CVSS v2.0 metrics


NOTE: The following CVSS v2.0 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

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

Errata information


PlatformErrataRelease Date
Oracle Linux version 6 (ntp)ELSA-2016-07802016-05-12
Oracle Linux version 7 (ntp)ELSA-2016-25832016-11-09



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