Name: CVE-2017-6455: Improper Control of Generation of Code
Creator: Rapid7
Published: 2017-03-27T00:00:00.000Z
License: https://www.rapid7.com/legal/website-terms-of-use/
Keywords: CVE, CVE-2017-6455, CWE-94, CVSS 7, EPSS 0.00055

NTP before 4.2.8p10 and 4.3.x before 4.3.94, when using PPSAPI, allows local users to gain privileges via a DLL in the PPSAPI_DLLS environment variable.

CVSS Details

CVSS 3.0 Base Score: 7
CVSS 3.0 Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Covered by Rapid7

Product	Vendor Advisory	Solution File	Added	Published
Apple Osx Ntp	—	Upgrade macOS to the latest version	Sep 26, 2017	Mar 27, 2017
Ntp	—	Upgrade to the latest version of NTP	Feb 23, 2023	Mar 27, 2017
Oracle Solaris	—	Upgrade service/network/ntp to version 4.2.8.10-0.175.3.20.0.2.0 on Solaris 11.3	Jun 8, 2017	Mar 27, 2017
Vmware Photon_os	—	Use 'tdnf update' to upgrade all packages to the latest version.	Jan 20, 2025	Mar 27, 2017

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CVSS Details

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