CVEvulnerability

CVE-2018-12327

9.8 CRITICAL Published 2018-06-20 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2018-06-20
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-787

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in ntpq and ntpdc of NTP version 4.2.8p11 allows an attacker to achieve code execution or escalate to higher privileges via a long string as the argument for an IPv4 or IPv6 command-line parameter. NOTE: It is unclear whether there are any common situations in which ntpq or ntpdc is used with a command line from an untrusted source.

Affected configurations

• ntp ntp 4.2.8

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write weakness

References