vulnerability

NTP: Unspecified Security Vulnerability (CVE-2015-8158)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jan 30, 2017
Added
Feb 23, 2023
Modified
Mar 1, 2023

Description

The getresponse function in ntpq in NTP versions before 4.2.8p9 and 4.3.x before 4.3.90 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via crafted packets with incorrect values.

Solution

ntp-upgrade-latest

References

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