CVE-2015-5300

high
Published 2017-07-21 · Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
7.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
VIR risk
7.5

Description

The panic_gate check in NTP before 4.2.8p5 is only re-enabled after the first change to the system clock that was greater than 128 milliseconds by default, which allows remote attackers to set NTP to an arbitrary time when started with the -g option, or to alter the time by up to 900 seconds otherwise by responding to an unspecified number of requests from trusted sources, and leveraging a resulting denial of service (abort and restart).

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
83%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

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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
suse suse42.1affected
suse suse13.2affected
suse suse12affected
suse suse10affected
suse suse11affected
debian debian7.0affected
debian debian8.0affected
debian debianbullseyefixed1:4.2.8p4+dfsg-2

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
suse suselinux_enterprise_debuginfo11
ntpntp{"endIncluding":"4.2.8"}

References

CWEs

CWE-361

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