CVE-2018-7185

high
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
8.0

Description

The protocol engine in ntp 4.2.6 before 4.2.8p11 allows a remote attackers to cause a denial of service (disruption) by continually sending a packet with a zero-origin timestamp and source IP address of the "other side" of an interleaved association causing the victim ntpd to reset its association.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-7185

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-7185.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-201803-11

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed4.2.8.p11-1
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed0
debian debianforkyfixed0
debian debiansidfixed0
debian debiantrixiefixed0
debian debianbullseyefixed1:4.2.8p11+dfsg-1

References

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