CVE-2015-7978

HIGH

NTP < 4.2.8p6 and 4.3.0 < 4.3.90 - Denial of Service via ntpdc relist Command

Title source: llm

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.

References (24)

Core 24

Core References

Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_cisco

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

Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse

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

Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian

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

Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse

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

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack

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

Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse

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

Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource third-party-advisory x_refsource_cert-vn

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

Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse

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

Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_fedora

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

Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat

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

Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm

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

Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse

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

Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat

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

Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm

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

Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_fedora

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

Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse

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

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid

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

Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse

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

Various Sources vendor-advisory x_refsource_freebsd

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

Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm

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

Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse

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

Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo

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

Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu

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

Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm

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

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5

EPSS 0.0998

EPSS Percentile 95.0%

Attack Vector NETWORK

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE

CWE-400

Status published

Products (50)

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

... and 40 more

Published Jan 30, 2017

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026