VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2017-6452

high
Published 2017-03-27 · Modified 2026-05-13
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CVSS v3
7.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.8

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the Windows installer for NTP before 4.2.8p10 and 4.3.x before 4.3.94 allows local users to have unspecified impact via an application path on the command line.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
75%
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
debian debianbullseyefixed0

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
ntpntp4.2.8
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
ntpntp4.3.90
ntpntp4.3.91
ntpntp4.3.92
ntpntp4.3.93

References

CWEs

CWE-119

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

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