DEBIAN-CVE-2015-7978

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Source
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-7978
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2015-7978.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/DEBIAN-CVE-2015-7978
Upstream
Published
2017-01-30T21:59:00.520Z
Modified
2025-11-19T01:12:32.266091Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Debian:11 / ntp

Package

Name
ntp
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/ntp?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1:4.2.8p7+dfsg-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2015-7978.json"