CVE-2015-7852

Public on 2015-10-27

Modified on 2015-10-27

Description

An off-by-one flaw, leading to a buffer overflow, was found in cookedprint functionality of ntpq. A specially crafted NTP packet could potentially cause ntpq to crash.

Severity

Medium

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CVSS v3 Base Score

4.3

See breakdown

Affected Packages

Platform	Package	Release Date	Advisory
Amazon Linux 1	ntp	2015-10-27 16:42	ALAS-2015-607

CVSS Scores

	Score Type	Score	Vector
Amazon Linux	CVSSv2	4.3	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
NVD	CVSSv2	4.3	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
NVD	CVSSv3	5.9	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

Red Hat: CVE-2015-7852 Mitre: CVE-2015-7852 FAQs regarding Amazon Linux ALAS/CVE Severity