Resource Exhaustion The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package ntp (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
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- published30 Jan 2017
- disclosed30 Jan 2017
Introduced: 30 Jan 2017
CVE-2015-7978 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Debian security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Debian:unstable.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ntp package and not the ntp package as distributed by Debian.
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.
References
- https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/718152
- http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20160127-ntpd
- https://bto.bluecoat.com/security-advisory/sa113
- http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Main/SecurityNotice#April_2016_NTP_4_2_8p7_Security
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3629
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-7978
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/177507.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/176434.html
- https://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-16:09.ntp.asc
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-15
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20171031-0001/
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00059.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00060.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00020.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00038.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00048.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00026.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00042.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-05/msg00114.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinapr2016-2952096.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0780.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2583.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/81962
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034782
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2015-7978
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3096-1