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F5 Networks: K99254031 (CVE-2017-6458): NTP vulnerability CVE-2017-6458

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F5 Networks: K99254031 (CVE-2017-6458): NTP vulnerability CVE-2017-6458

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
03/27/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
05/10/2017
Modified
09/16/2019

Description

Multiple buffer overflows in the ctl_put* functions in NTP before 4.2.8p10 and 4.3.x before 4.3.94 allow remote authenticated users to have unspecified impact via a long variable.

Solution(s)

  • f5-big-ip-upgrade-latest

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