NTP: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer (CVE-2016-2519)
5
(AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
01/30/2017
02/28/2023
02/23/2023
03/01/2023
Description
ntpd in NTP before 4.2.8p7 and 4.3.x before 4.3.92 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (ntpd abort) by a large request data value, which triggers the ctl_getitem function to return a NULL value.
Solution(s)
- ntp-upgrade-latest
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