Select your cookie preferences

We use cookies and similar tools to enhance your experience, provide our services, deliver relevant advertising, and make improvements. Approved third parties also use these tools to help us deliver advertising and provide certain site features.

CVE-2018-7183

Public on 2018-03-08
Modified on 2018-05-10
Description

Buffer overflow in the decodearr function in ntpq in ntp 4.2.8p6 through 4.2.8p10 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by leveraging an ntpq query and sending a response with a crafted array.

Severity
Medium
See what this means
CVSS v3 Base Score
5.0
See breakdown

Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 ntp 2018-05-10 17:01 ALAS-2018-1009

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 5.0 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
NVD CVSSv3 9.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD CVSSv2 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P