CVEvulnerability
CVE-2023-26551
5.6 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2023-04-11
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.6 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
- CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
- 5.6 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
- Weaknesses
- CWE-787
Description
mstolfp in libntp/mstolfp.c in NTP 4.2.8p15 has an out-of-bounds write in the cp<cpdec while loop. An adversary may be able to attack a client ntpq process, but cannot attack ntpd.
Affected configurations
• ntp ntp 4.2.8
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write weakness
References
- https://github.com/spwpun/ntp-4.2.8p15-cves/blob/main/CVE-2023-26551 Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/spwpun/ntp-4.2.8p15-cves/issues/1#issuecomment-1506667321 Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/spwpun/ntp-4.2.8p15-cves/blob/main/CVE-2023-26551 Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/spwpun/ntp-4.2.8p15-cves/issues/1#issuecomment-1506667321 Third Party Advisory