CVEvulnerability
CVE-2015-7978
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-01-30
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-400
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.
Affected configurations
• ntp ntp (<= 4.2.8)
• ntp ntp 4.3.0
• ntp ntp 4.3.1
• ntp ntp 4.3.2
• ntp ntp 4.3.3
• ntp ntp 4.3.4
• ntp ntp 4.3.5
• ntp ntp 4.3.6
• ntp ntp 4.3.7
• ntp ntp 4.3.8
• ntp ntp 4.3.10
• ntp ntp 4.3.11
• ntp ntp 4.3.12
• ntp ntp 4.3.13
• ntp ntp 4.3.14
• ntp ntp 4.3.15
• ntp ntp 4.3.16
• ntp ntp 4.3.17
• ntp ntp 4.3.18
• ntp ntp 4.3.19
• ntp ntp 4.3.20
• ntp ntp 4.3.21
• ntp ntp 4.3.22
• ntp ntp 4.3.23
• ntp ntp 4.3.24
• ntp ntp 4.3.25
• ntp ntp 4.3.26
• ntp ntp 4.3.27
• ntp ntp 4.3.28
• ntp ntp 4.3.29
• ntp ntp 4.3.30
• ntp ntp 4.3.31
• ntp ntp 4.3.32
• ntp ntp 4.3.33
• ntp ntp 4.3.34
• ntp ntp 4.3.35
• ntp ntp 4.3.36
• ntp ntp 4.3.37
• ntp ntp 4.3.38
• ntp ntp 4.3.39
• ntp ntp 4.3.40
• ntp ntp 4.3.41
• ntp ntp 4.3.42
• ntp ntp 4.3.43
• ntp ntp 4.3.44
• ntp ntp 4.3.45
• ntp ntp 4.3.46
• ntp ntp 4.3.47
• ntp ntp 4.3.48
• ntp ntp 4.3.49
• ntp ntp 4.3.50
• ntp ntp 4.3.51
• ntp ntp 4.3.52
• ntp ntp 4.3.53
• ntp ntp 4.3.54
• ntp ntp 4.3.55
• ntp ntp 4.3.56
• ntp ntp 4.3.57
• ntp ntp 4.3.58
• ntp ntp 4.3.59
… and 30 more
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/177507.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/176434.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00059.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00060.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00020.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00038.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00048.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00026.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00042.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-05/msg00114.html Third Party Advisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0780.html Third Party Advisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2583.html Third Party Advisory
- http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Main/SecurityNotice#April_2016_NTP_4_2_8p7_Security Vendor Advisory
- http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20160127-ntpd Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3629 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinapr2016-2952096.html www.oracle.com
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- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034782 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3096-1 Third Party Advisory
- https://bto.bluecoat.com/security-advisory/sa113 Third Party Advisory
- https://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-16:09.ntp.asc security.FreeBSD.org
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-15 Third Party Advisory
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20171031-0001/ security.netapp.com
- https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/718152 Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/177507.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/176434.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00059.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00060.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00020.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00038.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00048.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00026.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00042.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-05/msg00114.html Third Party Advisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0780.html Third Party Advisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2583.html Third Party Advisory
- http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Main/SecurityNotice#April_2016_NTP_4_2_8p7_Security Vendor Advisory
- http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20160127-ntpd Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3629 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinapr2016-2952096.html www.oracle.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/81962 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034782 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3096-1 Third Party Advisory
- https://bto.bluecoat.com/security-advisory/sa113 Third Party Advisory
- https://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-16:09.ntp.asc security.FreeBSD.org
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-15 Third Party Advisory
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20171031-0001/ security.netapp.com
- https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/718152 Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource