NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting ntp-doc package, versions <0:4.2.6p5-25.el7


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.96% (89th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-NTPDOC-4629350
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed25 Aug 2015

Introduced: 25 Aug 2015

CVE-2015-5195  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:7 ntp-doc to version 0:4.2.6p5-25.el7 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2016:2583.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ntp-doc package and not the ntp-doc package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

ntp_openssl.m4 in ntpd in NTP before 4.2.7p112 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) via a crafted statistics or filegen configuration command that is not enabled during compilation.

CVSS Scores

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