UBUNTU-CVE-2015-7978

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2015-7978

    Published: 31 Dec 2015Last Modified: 4 Feb 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2015-7978
    Aliases:
    USN-3096-1

    Summary:

    Details: 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: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-7978, http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Main/SecurityNotice#January_2016_NTP_4_2_8p6_Securit, http://www.talosintel.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0075/, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3096-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-7978

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: ntp

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/ntp@1:4.2.6.p5+dfsg-3ubuntu2.14.04.10?arch=source&distro=trusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1:4.2.6.p5+dfsg-3ubuntu2.14.04.10

    Affected versions

    1:4.2.6.p5+dfsg-3ubuntu2
    1:4.2.6.p5+dfsg-3ubuntu2.14.04.1
    1:4.2.6.p5+dfsg-3ubuntu2.14.04.2
    1:4.2.6.p5+dfsg-3ubuntu2.14.04.3
    1:4.2.6.p5+dfsg-3ubuntu2.14.04.5
    1:4.2.6.p5+dfsg-3ubuntu2.14.04.6
    1:4.2.6.p5+dfsg-3ubuntu2.14.04.7
    1:4.2.6.p5+dfsg-3ubuntu2.14.04.8

    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