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CVE-2015-7978
NTP before 4.2.8p6 and 4.3.0 before 4.3.90 allows a remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack exhaustion) via an ntpdc relist…
High7.5EPSS 9.9%
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Description
NTP before 4.2.8p6 and 4.3.0 before 4.3.90 allows a remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack exhaustion) via an ntpdc relist command, which triggers recursive traversal of the restriction list.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 9.9% · top 4.4% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Weakness
Affected products
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- affected n/a
References (24)
- 20160120 Multiple Vulnerabilities in Network Time Protocol Daemon Affecting Cisco Products - January 2016 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_CISCOx_transferred
- USN-3096-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- SUSE-SU-2016:1177 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- DSA-3629 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinapr2016-2952096.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- SUSE-SU-2016:1912 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- 1034782 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2016:1292 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- VU#718152 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNx_transferred
- SUSE-SU-2016:1247 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- FEDORA-2016-8bb1932088 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- RHSA-2016:2583 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20171031-0001/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- SUSE-SU-2016:1311 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- RHSA-2016:0780 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Main/SecurityNotice#April_2016_NTP_4_2_8p7_Security (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- FEDORA-2016-34bc10a2c8 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- SUSE-SU-2016:2094 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- 81962 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- SUSE-SU-2016:1175 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- FreeBSD-SA-16:09 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FREEBSDx_transferred
- https://bto.bluecoat.com/security-advisory/sa113 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2016:1423 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- GLSA-201607-15 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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