vulnerability

Arch Linux: Arbitrary code execution (CVE-2018-12327)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Jun 20, 2018
Added
Jul 11, 2025
Modified
Nov 27, 2025

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in ntpq and ntpdc of NTP version 4.2.8p11 allows an attacker to achieve code execution or escalate to higher privileges via a long string as the argument for an IPv4 or IPv6 command-line parameter.

Solution

arch-linux-upgrade-latest

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