CVE-2016-2519

MEDIUM

Ntp < 4.2.8 - Memory Corruption

Title source: rule

Description

ntpd in NTP before 4.2.8p7 and 4.3.x before 4.3.92 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (ntpd abort) by a large request data value, which triggers the ctl_getitem function to return a NULL value.

References (8)

[Vendor Advisory] http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Main/NtpBug3008

[Third Party Advisory] http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/88204

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035705

[Various Sources] https://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-16:16.ntp.asc

[Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource] https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/718152

[Vendor Advisory] https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20171004-0002/

[Third Party Advisory] https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-15

Scores

CVSS v3 5.9

EPSS 0.0949

EPSS Percentile 92.7%

Attack Vector NETWORK

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

Classification

CWE

CWE-119

Status published

Affected Products (50)

ntp/ntp < 4.2.8

ntp/ntp

... and 35 more

Timeline

Published Jan 30, 2017

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026