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CVE-2017-6451

Published: 27 March 2017

The mx4200_send function in the legacy MX4200 refclock in NTP before 4.2.8p10 and 4.3.x before 4.3.94 does not properly handle the return value of the snprintf function, which allows local users to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors, which trigger an out-of-bounds memory write.

Priority

Medium

CVSS 3 base score: 7.8

Status

Package Release Status
ntp
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
upstream Needs triage

precise Not vulnerable
(code not compiled)
trusty Not vulnerable
(code not compiled)
xenial Not vulnerable
(code not compiled)
yakkety Not vulnerable
(code not compiled)