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SUSE: CVE-2023-26553: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
04/11/2023
Created
05/10/2023
Added
05/10/2023
Modified
05/10/2023

Description

mstolfp in libntp/mstolfp.c in NTP 4.2.8p15 has an out-of-bounds write when copying the trailing number. An adversary may be able to attack a client ntpq process, but cannot attack ntpd.

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-ntp
  • suse-upgrade-ntp-doc

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