vulnerability
Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2015-7978: Security patch for ntp (ALAS-2016-649)
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P) | Feb 9, 2016 | Sep 19, 2018 | May 7, 2019 |
Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Feb 9, 2016
Added
Sep 19, 2018
Modified
May 7, 2019
Description
NTP before 4.2.8p6 and 4.3.0 before 4.3.90 allows a remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack exhaustion) via an ntpdc relist command, which triggers recursive traversal of the restriction list.
Solution
amazon-linux-upgrade-ntp
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