Out-of-Bounds The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package ntp  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1904-NTP-655478
  • published27 Mar 2017
  • disclosed27 Mar 2017

Introduced: 27 Mar 2017

CVE-2017-6458  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:19.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ntp package and not the ntp package as distributed by Ubuntu.

Multiple buffer overflows in the ctl_put* functions in NTP before 4.2.8p10 and 4.3.x before 4.3.94 allow remote authenticated users to have unspecified impact via a long variable.

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