CVE-2018-12327
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v2
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VIR risk
5.5
Description
Stack-based buffer overflow in ntpq and ntpdc of NTP version 4.2.8p11 allows an attacker to achieve code execution or escalate to higher privileges via a long string as the argument for an IPv4 or IPv6 command-line parameter. NOTE: It is unclear whether there are any common situations in which ntpq or ntpdc is used with a command line from an untrusted source.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-12327
Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-12327.html
Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-201810-2
OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| arch | fixed | 4.2.8.p12-1 | |
| sles | affected | | |
| debian | bullseye | affected | |
References
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.