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vulnerability

Arch Linux: Denial of service (CVE-2018-7182)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Mar 6, 2018
Added
Jul 11, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

ctl_getitem() is used by ntpd to process incoming mode 6 packets. A malicious mode 6 packet can be sent to an ntpd instance, and if the ntpd instance is from 4.2.8p6 thru 4.2.8p10, that will cause ctl_getitem() to read past the end of its buffer.

Solution

arch-linux-upgrade-latest

References

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