VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2015-7976

medium
Published 2017-01-30 · Modified 2026-05-13
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CVSS v3
4.3
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
4.3

Description

The ntpq saveconfig command in NTP 4.1.2, 4.2.x before 4.2.8p6, 4.3, 4.3.25, 4.3.70, and 4.3.77 does not properly filter special characters, which allows attackers to cause unspecified impact via a crafted filename.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
53%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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OS impact
OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
debian debianbullseyefixed1:4.2.8p7+dfsg-1
suse suse42.1affected
suse suse13.2affected
suse suse12affected
suse suse10affected
suse suse11affected

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
ntpntp4.1.2
ntpntp{"endIncluding":"4.2.8"}
ntpntp4.3.0
ntpntp4.3.1
ntpntp4.3.2
ntpntp4.3.3
ntpntp4.3.4
ntpntp4.3.5
ntpntp4.3.6
ntpntp4.3.7
ntpntp4.3.8
ntpntp4.3.9
ntpntp4.3.10
ntpntp4.3.11
ntpntp4.3.12
ntpntp4.3.13
ntpntp4.3.14
ntpntp4.3.15
ntpntp4.3.16
ntpntp4.3.17
ntpntp4.3.18
ntpntp4.3.19
ntpntp4.3.20
ntpntp4.3.21
ntpntp4.3.22
ntpntp4.3.23
ntpntp4.3.24
ntpntp4.3.25
ntpntp4.3.26
ntpntp4.3.27
ntpntp4.3.28
ntpntp4.3.29
ntpntp4.3.30
ntpntp4.3.31
ntpntp4.3.32
ntpntp4.3.33
ntpntp4.3.34
ntpntp4.3.35
ntpntp4.3.36
ntpntp4.3.37
ntpntp4.3.38
ntpntp4.3.39
ntpntp4.3.40
ntpntp4.3.41
ntpntp4.3.42
ntpntp4.3.43
ntpntp4.3.44
ntpntp4.3.45
ntpntp4.3.46
ntpntp4.3.47
ntpntp4.3.48
ntpntp4.3.49
ntpntp4.3.50
ntpntp4.3.51
ntpntp4.3.52
ntpntp4.3.53
ntpntp4.3.54
ntpntp4.3.55
ntpntp4.3.56
ntpntp4.3.57
ntpntp4.3.58
ntpntp4.3.59
ntpntp4.3.60
ntpntp4.3.61
ntpntp4.3.62
ntpntp4.3.63
ntpntp4.3.64
ntpntp4.3.65
ntpntp4.3.66
ntpntp4.3.67
ntpntp4.3.68
ntpntp4.3.69
ntpntp4.3.70
ntpntp4.3.71
ntpntp4.3.72
ntpntp4.3.73
ntpntp4.3.74
ntpntp4.3.75
ntpntp4.3.76
ntpntp4.3.77
ntpntp4.3.78
ntpntp4.3.79
ntpntp4.3.80
ntpntp4.3.81
ntpntp4.3.82
ntpntp4.3.83
ntpntp4.3.84
ntpntp4.3.85
ntpntp4.3.86
ntpntp4.3.87
ntpntp4.3.88
ntpntp4.3.89
suse suselinux_enterprise_debuginfo11
suse susemanager2.1
suse susemanager_proxy2.1

References

CWEs

CWE-254

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

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