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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2015-7853: ntp security update

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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2015-7853: ntp security update

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
08/07/2017
Created
09/26/2019
Added
09/25/2019
Modified
09/25/2019

Description

The datalen parameter in the refclock driver in NTP 4.2.x before 4.2.8p4, and 4.3.x before 4.3.77 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (crash) via a negative input value.

Solution(s)

  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp3-upgrade-ntp
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp3-upgrade-ntpdate
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp3-upgrade-sntp

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