CVE-2015-5219

high
Published 2017-07-21 · Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
7.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
VIR risk
7.5

Description

The ULOGTOD function in ntp.d in SNTP before 4.2.7p366 does not properly perform type conversions from a precision value to a double, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a crafted NTP packet.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
83%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No vendor mitigations ingested yet for this CVE. The mitigation-content worker queues fetches as references arrive — check back in a few minutes, or see the references list below.

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
redhat rhel6.0affected
redhat rhel7.0affected
ubuntu ubuntu12.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu14.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu15.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu15.10affected
fedora fedora21affected
fedora fedora22affected
fedora fedora23affected
suse suse10affected
suse suse11affected
suse suse42.1affected
debian debian7.0affected
debian debian8.0affected
debian debianbullseyefixed1:4.2.8p3+dfsg-1

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
suse suselinux_enterprise_debuginfo11
ntpntp{"endIncluding":"4.2.7"}

References

CWEs

CWE-704

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Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.