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.

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Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-559-1 ntp security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-3629-1 ntp security update
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-3096-1 NTP vulnerabilities
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References
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http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/177507.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/176434.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00059.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00060.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00020.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00038.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00048.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00026.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00042.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-05/msg00114.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0780.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2583.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Main/SecurityNotice#April_2016_NTP_4_2_8p7_Security cve-icon cve-icon
http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Main/SecurityNotice#January_2016_NTP_4_2_8p6_Securit cve-icon
http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20160127-ntpd cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3629 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinapr2016-2952096.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/81962 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034782 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.talosintel.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0075/ cve-icon
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3096-1 cve-icon cve-icon
https://bto.bluecoat.com/security-advisory/sa113 cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-7978 cve-icon
https://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-16:09.ntp.asc cve-icon cve-icon
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-15 cve-icon cve-icon
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20171031-0001/ cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-7978 cve-icon
https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/718152 cve-icon cve-icon
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T08:06:31.406Z

Reserved: 2015-10-23T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2015-7978

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2017-01-30T21:59:00.520

Modified: 2025-04-20T01:37:25.860

Link: CVE-2015-7978

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2016-01-20T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2015-7978 - Bugzilla

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