CVE-2015-7978
NTP Denial of Service Remote Stack Exhaustion
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.
INFO
Published Date :
Jan. 30, 2017, 9:59 p.m.
Last Modified :
May 18, 2018, 1:29 a.m.
Source :
[email protected]
Remotely Exploitable :
Yes !
Impact Score :
3.6
Exploitability Score :
3.9
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CVE Modified by [email protected]
May. 14, 2024
Action Type Old Value New Value -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
May. 18, 2018
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Reference http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinapr2016-2952096.html [No Types Assigned] -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
Nov. 21, 2017
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Reference https://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-16:09.ntp.asc [No Types Assigned] -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
Nov. 10, 2017
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Reference https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20171031-0001/ [No Types Assigned] -
Initial Analysis by [email protected]
Feb. 07, 2017
Action Type Old Value New Value Added CVSS V2 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P) Added CVSS V3 AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Changed Reference Type http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00026.html No Types Assigned http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00026.html Third Party Advisory Changed Reference Type https://bto.bluecoat.com/security-advisory/sa113 No Types Assigned https://bto.bluecoat.com/security-advisory/sa113 Third Party Advisory Changed Reference Type http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00020.html No Types Assigned http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00020.html Third Party Advisory Changed Reference Type http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034782 No Types Assigned http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034782 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry Changed Reference Type http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/177507.html No Types Assigned http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/177507.html Third Party Advisory Changed Reference Type http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00038.html No Types Assigned http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00038.html Third Party Advisory Changed Reference Type http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2583.html No Types Assigned http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2583.html Third Party Advisory Changed Reference Type http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Main/SecurityNotice#April_2016_NTP_4_2_8p7_Security No Types Assigned http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Main/SecurityNotice#April_2016_NTP_4_2_8p7_Security Vendor Advisory Changed Reference Type http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00059.html No Types Assigned http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00059.html Third Party Advisory Changed Reference Type http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3629 No Types Assigned http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3629 Third Party Advisory Changed Reference Type https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-15 No Types Assigned https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-15 Third Party Advisory Changed Reference Type http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0780.html No Types Assigned http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0780.html Third Party Advisory Changed Reference Type http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3096-1 No Types Assigned http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3096-1 Third Party Advisory Changed Reference Type http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20160127-ntpd No Types Assigned http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20160127-ntpd Third Party Advisory Changed Reference Type http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00042.html No Types Assigned http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00042.html Third Party Advisory Changed Reference Type http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00060.html No Types Assigned http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00060.html Third Party Advisory Changed Reference Type http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-05/msg00114.html No Types Assigned http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-05/msg00114.html Third Party Advisory Changed Reference Type https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/718152 No Types Assigned https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/718152 Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource Changed Reference Type http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/176434.html No Types Assigned http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/176434.html Third Party Advisory Changed Reference Type http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/81962 No Types Assigned http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/81962 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry Changed Reference Type http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00048.html No Types Assigned http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00048.html Third Party Advisory Added CWE CWE-400 Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:ntp:ntp:4.2.8:p5:*:*:*:*:*:* (and previous) *cpe:2.3:a:ntp:ntp:4.3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:ntp:ntp:4.3.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:ntp:ntp:4.3.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:ntp:ntp:4.3.11:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:ntp:ntp:4.3.12:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:ntp:ntp:4.3.13:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:ntp:ntp:4.3.14:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:ntp:ntp:4.3.15:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:ntp:ntp:4.3.16:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:ntp:ntp:4.3.17:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:ntp:ntp:4.3.18:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:ntp:ntp:4.3.19:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:ntp:ntp:4.3.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:ntp:ntp:4.3.20:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:ntp:ntp:4.3.21:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:ntp:ntp:4.3.22:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:ntp:ntp:4.3.23:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 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CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration
While CVE identifies
specific instances of vulnerabilities, CWE categorizes the common flaws or
weaknesses that can lead to vulnerabilities. CVE-2015-7978 is
associated with the following CWEs:
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification
(CAPEC)
stores attack patterns, which are descriptions of the common attributes and
approaches employed by adversaries to exploit the CVE-2015-7978
weaknesses.
Exploit Prediction
EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days.
8.48 }} 1.38%
score
0.94371
percentile