NTP BUG 3389: Denial of Service via Malformed Config

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


Summary

Resolved 4.2.8p10 21 Mar 2017
References Bug 3389 CVE-2017-6464
Affects All versions of NTP-4, 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

A vulnerability found in the NTP server makes it possible for an authenticated remote user to crash ntpd via a malformed mode configuration directive.


Mitigation


Credit

This weakness was discovered by Cure53.


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