USN-2497-1

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    USN-2497-1

    Published: 9 Feb 2015Last Modified: 10 Feb 2026

    Summary: ntp vulnerabilities

    Details: Stephen Roettger, Sebastian Krahmer, and Harlan Stenn discovered that NTP incorrectly handled the length value in extension fields. A remote attacker could use this issue to possibly obtain leaked information, or cause the NTP daemon to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2014-9297) Stephen Roettger discovered that NTP incorrectly handled ACLs based on certain IPv6 addresses. (CVE-2014-9298)

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2497-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-9297, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-9298

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: ntp

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/ntp@1:4.2.6.p5+dfsg-3ubuntu2.14.04.2?arch=source&distro=trusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1:4.2.6.p5+dfsg-3ubuntu2.14.04.2

    Affected versions

    1:4.2.6.p5+dfsg-3ubuntu2
    1:4.2.6.p5+dfsg-3ubuntu2.14.04.1

    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