High severity · published Jan 30, 2017
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…
7.5
CVSS
9.9%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)9.9% · higher than 96% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
NT
Ntp · Ntp
through 4.2.8; 4.3.0; 4.3.1; 4.3.2; 4.3.3; 4.3.4; +34 more · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-7978
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-7978
Third Party Advisory
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/177507.html
Third Party Advisory
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/176434.html
Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00059.html
Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00060.html
Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00020.html
Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00038.html
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