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    CVE-2015-7978

    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.

    Published:Jan 20, 2016
    Last Modified:Apr 20, 2025
    EPS:Jan 30, 2017
    EPSS Score:0.28333
    CVSS Score:7.5

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Ntp
    Product
    Ntp
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Enterprise Linux

    Exploits

    No exploit reference

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    References

    http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/177507.html
    http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/176434.html
    http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00059.html
    http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00060.html
    http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00020.html
    http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00038.html
    http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00048.html
    http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00026.html
    http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00042.html
    http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-05/msg00114.html
    http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0780.html
    http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2583.html
    http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Main/SecurityNotice#April_2016_NTP_4_2_8p7_Security
    http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20160127-ntpd
    http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3629
    http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinapr2016-2952096.html
    http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/81962
    http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034782
    http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3096-1
    https://bto.bluecoat.com/security-advisory/sa113
    https://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-16:09.ntp.asc
    https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-15
    https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20171031-0001/
    https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/718152
    http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/177507.html
    http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/176434.html
    http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00059.html
    http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00060.html
    http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00020.html
    http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00038.html
    http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00048.html
    http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00026.html
    http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00042.html
    http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-05/msg00114.html
    http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0780.html
    http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2583.html
    http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Main/SecurityNotice#April_2016_NTP_4_2_8p7_Security
    http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20160127-ntpd
    http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3629
    http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinapr2016-2952096.html
    http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/81962
    http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034782
    http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3096-1
    https://bto.bluecoat.com/security-advisory/sa113
    https://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-16:09.ntp.asc
    https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-15
    https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20171031-0001/
    https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/718152

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High