USN-2497-1

Stephen Roettger, Sebastian Krahmer, and Harlan Stenn discovered that NTP incorrectly handled the length value in extension fields. A remote attacker could use this issue to possibly obtain leaked information, or cause the NTP daemon to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2014-9297)

Stephen Roettger discovered that NTP incorrectly handled ACLs based on certain IPv6 addresses. (CVE-2014-9298)

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:14.04:LTS / ntp

Package

Name: ntp
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/ntp@1:4.2.6.p5+dfsg-3ubuntu2.14.04.2?arch=source&distro=trusty

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

1:4.2.6.p5+dfsg-3ubuntu2.14.04.2

Affected versions

1:4.*

1:4.2.6.p5+dfsg-3ubuntu2

1:4.2.6.p5+dfsg-3ubuntu2.14.04.1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "ntp",
            "binary_version": "1:4.2.6.p5+dfsg-3ubuntu2.14.04.2"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "ntpdate",
            "binary_version": "1:4.2.6.p5+dfsg-3ubuntu2.14.04.2"
        }
    ],
    "availability": "No subscription required"
}

Database specific

source

"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/usn/USN-2497-1.json"

cves_map

{
    "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:14.04:LTS",
    "cves": [
        {
            "id": "CVE-2014-9297",
            "severity": [
                {
                    "type": "Ubuntu",
                    "score": "medium"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "CVE-2014-9298",
            "severity": [
                {
                    "type": "Ubuntu",
                    "score": "medium"
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}