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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2015-7851: Vulnerability in NTP

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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2015-7851: Vulnerability in NTP

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
05/29/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
05/29/2017
Modified
02/01/2022

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the save_config function in ntpd in ntp_control.c in NTP before 4.2.8p4, when used on systems that do not use '\' or '/' characters for directory separation such as OpenVMS, allows remote authenticated users to overwrite arbitrary files.

Solution(s)

  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-service-network-ntp-4-2-8-6-0-175-3-6-0-1-0

References

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