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CVE-2015-7978

Date: January 30, 2017

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.

Severity Score

7.5

Related Resources (29)

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00059.html

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-7978

Url: http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3629

Url: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/176434.html

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-7978

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00038.html

Url: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/177507.html

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2015-7978

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00042.html

Url: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinapr2016-2952096.html

Url: http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Main/SecurityNotice#April_2016_NTP_4_2_8p7_Security

Url: https://bto.bluecoat.com/security-advisory/sa113

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00060.html

Url: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2583.html

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00048.html

Url: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-7978

Url: https://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-16:09.ntp.asc

Url: http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20160127-ntpd

Url: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0780.html

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00020.html

Url: https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20171031-0001/

Url: http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034782

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-05/msg00114.html

Url: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-15

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/81962

Url: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3096-1

Url: https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/718152

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00026.html

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2015-7978

Severity Score

7.5

Weakness Type (CWE)

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ('Resource Exhaustion')

CWE-400

CVSS v3

Base Score:	7.5
Attack Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:	5.0
Access Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC):	LOW
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	PARTIAL
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CVE-2015-7978

Date: January 30, 2017

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