NTP BUG 3379: Potential Overflows in ctl_put() functions

Last update: April 22, 2024 18:49 UTC (7e7bd5857)


Summary

Resolved Potential Overflows in ctl_put() functions 21 Mar 2017
References Bug 3379 CVE-2017-6458
Affects All versions of NTP, up to but not including ntp-4.2.8p10,
and ntp-4.3.0 up to, but not including ntp-4.3.94.
Resolved in 4.2.8p10.
CVSS2 Score MED 4.6 AV:N/AC:H/Au:M/C:N/I:N/A:C)
CVSS3 Score MED 4.2 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Description

ntpd makes use of different wrappers around ctl_putdata() to create name/value ntpq (mode 6) response strings. For example, ctl_putstr() is usually used to send string data (variable names or string data). The formatting code was missing a length check for variable names. If somebody explicitly created any unusually long variable names in ntpd (longer than 200-512 bytes, depending on the type of variable), then if any of these variables are added to the response list it would overflow a buffer.


Mitigation


Credit

This weakness was discovered by Cure53.


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