VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2015-7975

medium
Published 2017-01-30 · Modified 2026-05-13
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CVSS v3
6.2
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
6.2

Description

The nextvar function in NTP before 4.2.8p6 and 4.3.x before 4.3.90 does not properly validate the length of its input, which allows an attacker to cause a denial of service (application crash).

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
62%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact
OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
debian debianbullseyefixed1:4.2.8p7+dfsg-1

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
ntpntp{"endIncluding":"4.2.8"}
ntpntp4.3.0
ntpntp4.3.1
ntpntp4.3.2
ntpntp4.3.3
ntpntp4.3.4
ntpntp4.3.5
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ntpntp4.3.68
ntpntp4.3.69
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ntpntp4.3.89

References

CWEs

CWE-119

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

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