vulnerability

Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2018-7183: Security patch for ntp (ALAS-2018-1009)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Mar 8, 2018
Added
May 11, 2018
Modified
Mar 2, 2020

Description

Buffer overflow in the decodearr function in ntpq in ntp 4.2.8p6 through 4.2.8p10 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by leveraging an ntpq query and sending a response with a crafted array.

Solution

amazon-linux-upgrade-ntp
Title
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