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NTP: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer (CVE-2015-7975)

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jan 30, 2017
Added
Feb 23, 2023
Modified
Mar 1, 2023

Description

The nextvar function in NTP before 4.2.8p6 and 4.3.x before 4.3.90 does not properly validate the length of its input, which allows an attacker to cause a denial of service (application crash).

Solution

ntp-upgrade-latest

References

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