PT-2017-17081 · Ntt+4 · Ntp+4

Published 2017-03-27 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2017-6458

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

8.8

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions NTP versions prior to 4.2.8p10 NTP versions 4.3.x prior to 4.3.94

Description The issue is related to multiple buffer overflows in the ctl put* functions, allowing remote authenticated users to have an unspecified impact via a long variable. Additionally, a denial of service vulnerability exists, where a remote authenticated attacker could exploit this using a malformed mode configuration directive to cause the application to crash.

Recommendations For NTP versions prior to 4.2.8p10, update to version 4.2.8p10 or later. For NTP versions 4.3.x prior to 4.3.94, update to version 4.3.94 or later.

Fix

DoS

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2017-2335

CVE-2017-6458

MGASA-2017-0134

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:11102-1

SUSE-SU-2017:1047-1

SUSE-SU-2017:1048-1

SUSE-SU-2017:1052-1

USN-3349-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Ibm Aix

Ntp

Suse

Ubuntu

References · 76

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2017:1048-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3349-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Main/NtpBug3379 · Vendor Advisory
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZUPPICJXWL3AWQB7I3AWUC74YON7UING · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-6462 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-2519 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-6458 · Vendor Advisory
• http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Main/SecurityNotice#March_2017_ntp_4_2_8p10_NTP_Secu · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2017:1047-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-6460 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-7429 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-6458 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-7428 · Vendor Advisory
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/7KVLFA3J43QFIP4I7HE7KQ5FXSMJEKC6 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-9310 · Vendor Advisory