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NTP: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ('Resource Exhaustion') (CVE-2015-7978)

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NTP: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ('Resource Exhaustion') (CVE-2015-7978)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
01/30/2017
Created
02/28/2023
Added
02/23/2023
Modified
03/01/2023

Description

NTP before 4.2.8p6 and 4.3.0 before 4.3.90 allows a remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack exhaustion) via an ntpdc relist command, which triggers recursive traversal of the restriction list.

Solution(s)

  • ntp-upgrade-latest

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