Directory Traversal The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package ntp (opens in a new tab)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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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1204-NTP-624794
- published10 Sept 2020
- disclosed28 Jan 2020
Introduced: 28 Jan 2020
CVE-2015-7851 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:12.04.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ntp package and not the ntp package as distributed by Ubuntu.
Directory traversal vulnerability in the save_config function in ntpd in ntp_control.c in NTP before 4.2.8p4, when used on systems that do not use '' or '/' characters for directory separation such as OpenVMS, allows remote authenticated users to overwrite arbitrary files.