Out-of-bounds Read Affecting ntpsec/ntpsec package, versions [,1.1.3)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
45.72% (99th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-NTPSECNTPSEC-2365357
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed16 Jan 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 16 Jan 2019

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

How to fix?

Upgrade ntpsec/ntpsec to version 1.1.3 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Read. 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.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1