Out-of-bounds Read Affecting ntpsec package, versions <1.1.3-r0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Mature
EPSS
19.53% (97th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ALPINE310-NTPSEC-454350
  • published16 Jan 2019
  • disclosed16 Jan 2019

Introduced: 16 Jan 2019

CVE-2019-6444  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Alpine:3.10 ntpsec to version 1.1.3-r0 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ntpsec package and not the ntpsec package as distributed by Alpine. See How to fix? for Alpine:3.10 relevant fixed versions and status.

An issue was discovered in NTPsec before 1.1.3. process_control() in ntp_control.c has a stack-based buffer over-read because attacker-controlled data is dereferenced by ntohl() in ntpd.