vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2015-7978

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jan 30, 2017
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

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

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
Title
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