CVE-2015-7854
Buffer overflow in the password management functionality in NTP 4.2.x before 4.2.8p4, and 4.3.x before 4.3.77 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) or possibly
02 Description
Buffer overflow in the password management functionality in NTP 4.2.x before 4.2.8p4, and 4.3.x before 4.3.77 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) or possibly
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 14.56% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 96.3% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 8.8 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- Moderate. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2017-08-07 20:00Z9 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-06 08:06Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2015-10-16
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 7fee05990f71217e8a74f8e453cc9f40982c2cedbd6121aa9bbef87db58583e0
05 Affected products
06 References
- support.ntp.orghttp://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Main/NtpBug2921
- bugzilla.redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1274263
- www.securitytracker.com1033951http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033951
- www.securityfocus.com77277http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/77277
- security.gentoo.orgGLSA-201607-15https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-15
- security.netapp.comhttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20171004-0001/
07 Fixed in
Debian 11
- ntp Fixed in 1:4.2.8p4+dfsg-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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