DEBIAN-CVE-2023-26553

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Source
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-26553
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2023-26553.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/DEBIAN-CVE-2023-26553
Upstream
Published
2023-04-11T21:15:21.723Z
Modified
2025-11-20T10:17:34.401607Z
Severity
  • 5.6 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

mstolfp in libntp/mstolfp.c in NTP 4.2.8p15 has an out-of-bounds write when copying the trailing number. An adversary may be able to attack a client ntpq process, but cannot attack ntpd.

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

Affected versions

1:4.*

1:4.2.8p15+dfsg-1
1:4.2.8p15+dfsg-2~hurd.1
1:4.2.8p15+dfsg-2~1.2.1+dfsg1-7+hurd.1
1:4.2.8p15+dfsg-2~1.2.1+dfsg1-8+hurd.1
1:4.2.8p15+dfsg-2~1.2.2+dfsg1-2+hurd.1
1:4.2.8p15+dfsg-2-hurd.1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "unimportant"
}

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2023-26553.json"