usn-3349-1
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu
Published
2017-07-05 18:19
Modified
2026-02-10 04:41
Summary
ntp vulnerabilities
Details

Yihan Lian discovered that NTP incorrectly handled certain large request data values. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause NTP to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. (CVE-2016-2519)

Miroslav Lichvar discovered that NTP incorrectly handled certain spoofed addresses when performing rate limiting. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to perform a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 16.10. (CVE-2016-7426)

Matthew Van Gundy discovered that NTP incorrectly handled certain crafted broadcast mode packets. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to perform a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 16.10. (CVE-2016-7427, CVE-2016-7428)

Miroslav Lichvar discovered that NTP incorrectly handled certain responses. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to perform a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 16.10. (CVE-2016-7429)

Sharon Goldberg and Aanchal Malhotra discovered that NTP incorrectly handled origin timestamps of zero. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to bypass the origin timestamp protection mechanism. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.10. (CVE-2016-7431)

Brian Utterback, Sharon Goldberg and Aanchal Malhotra discovered that NTP incorrectly performed initial sync calculations. This issue only applied to Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.10. (CVE-2016-7433)

Magnus Stubman discovered that NTP incorrectly handled certain mrulist queries. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause NTP to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.10. (CVE-2016-7434)

Matthew Van Gund discovered that NTP incorrectly handled origin timestamp checks. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to perform a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu Ubuntu 16.10, and Ubuntu 17.04. (CVE-2016-9042)

Matthew Van Gundy discovered that NTP incorrectly handled certain control mode packets. A remote attacker could use this issue to set or unset traps. This issue only applied to Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.10. (CVE-2016-9310)

Matthew Van Gundy discovered that NTP incorrectly handled the trap service. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause NTP to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only applied to Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.10. (CVE-2016-9311)

It was discovered that NTP incorrectly handled memory when processing long variables. A remote authenticated user could possibly use this issue to cause NTP to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2017-6458)

It was discovered that NTP incorrectly handled memory when processing long variables. A remote authenticated user could possibly use this issue to cause NTP to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only applied to Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.10 and Ubuntu 17.04. (CVE-2017-6460)

It was discovered that the NTP legacy DPTS refclock driver incorrectly handled the /dev/datum device. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2017-6462)

It was discovered that NTP incorrectly handled certain invalid settings in a :config directive. A remote authenticated user could possibly use this issue to cause NTP to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2017-6463)

It was discovered that NTP incorrectly handled certain invalid mode configuration directives. A remote authenticated user could possibly use this issue to cause NTP to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2017-6464)

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              "id": "CVE-2016-9310",
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              "id": "CVE-2016-9311",
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                  "type": "CVSS_V3"
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              "id": "CVE-2017-6464",
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          },
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  ],
  "aliases": [],
  "details": "Yihan Lian discovered that NTP incorrectly handled certain large request\ndata values. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause NTP\nto crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected\nUbuntu 16.04 LTS. (CVE-2016-2519)\n\nMiroslav Lichvar discovered that NTP incorrectly handled certain spoofed\naddresses when performing rate limiting. A remote attacker could possibly\nuse this issue to perform a denial of service. This issue only affected\nUbuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 16.10. (CVE-2016-7426)\n\nMatthew Van Gundy discovered that NTP incorrectly handled certain crafted\nbroadcast mode packets. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to\nperform a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS,\nUbuntu 16.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 16.10. (CVE-2016-7427, CVE-2016-7428)\n\nMiroslav Lichvar discovered that NTP incorrectly handled certain responses.\nA remote attacker could possibly use this issue to perform a denial of\nservice. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, and\nUbuntu 16.10. (CVE-2016-7429)\n\nSharon Goldberg and Aanchal Malhotra discovered that NTP incorrectly\nhandled origin timestamps of zero. A remote attacker could possibly use\nthis issue to bypass the origin timestamp protection mechanism. This issue\nonly affected Ubuntu 16.10. (CVE-2016-7431)\n\nBrian Utterback, Sharon Goldberg and Aanchal Malhotra discovered that NTP\nincorrectly performed initial sync calculations. This issue only applied\nto Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.10. (CVE-2016-7433)\n\nMagnus Stubman discovered that NTP incorrectly handled certain mrulist\nqueries. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause NTP to\ncrash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu\n16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.10. (CVE-2016-7434)\n\nMatthew Van Gund discovered that NTP incorrectly handled origin timestamp\nchecks. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to perform a denial\nof service. This issue only affected Ubuntu Ubuntu 16.10, and Ubuntu 17.04.\n(CVE-2016-9042)\n\nMatthew Van Gundy discovered that NTP incorrectly handled certain control\nmode packets. A remote attacker could use this issue to set or unset traps.\nThis issue only applied to Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu\n16.10. (CVE-2016-9310)\n\nMatthew Van Gundy discovered that NTP incorrectly handled the trap service.\nA remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause NTP to crash,\nresulting in a denial of service. This issue only applied to Ubuntu 14.04\nLTS, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.10. (CVE-2016-9311)\n\nIt was discovered that NTP incorrectly handled memory when processing long\nvariables. A remote authenticated user could possibly use this issue to\ncause NTP to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2017-6458)\n\nIt was discovered that NTP incorrectly handled memory when processing long\nvariables. A remote authenticated user could possibly use this issue to\ncause NTP to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only\napplied to Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.10 and Ubuntu 17.04. (CVE-2017-6460)\n\nIt was discovered that the NTP legacy DPTS refclock driver incorrectly\nhandled the /dev/datum device. A local attacker could possibly use this\nissue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2017-6462)\n\nIt was discovered that NTP incorrectly handled certain invalid settings\nin a :config directive. A remote authenticated user could possibly use\nthis issue to cause NTP to crash, resulting in a denial of service.\n(CVE-2017-6463)\n\nIt was discovered that NTP incorrectly handled certain invalid mode\nconfiguration directives. A remote authenticated user could possibly use\nthis issue to cause NTP to crash, resulting in a denial of service.\n(CVE-2017-6464)\n",
  "id": "USN-3349-1",
  "modified": "2026-02-10T04:41:09Z",
  "published": "2017-07-05T18:19:15Z",
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      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3349-1"
    },
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      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-2519"
    },
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      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-7426"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-7427"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-7428"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-7429"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-7431"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-7433"
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    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-7434"
    },
    {
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      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-9042"
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    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-6458"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
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    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-6462"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-6463"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-6464"
    }
  ],
  "related": [],
  "schema_version": "1.7.0",
  "summary": "ntp vulnerabilities",
  "upstream": [
    "UBUNTU-CVE-2016-2519",
    "UBUNTU-CVE-2016-7426",
    "UBUNTU-CVE-2016-7427",
    "UBUNTU-CVE-2016-7428",
    "UBUNTU-CVE-2016-7429",
    "UBUNTU-CVE-2016-7431",
    "UBUNTU-CVE-2016-7433",
    "UBUNTU-CVE-2016-7434",
    "UBUNTU-CVE-2016-9042",
    "UBUNTU-CVE-2016-9310",
    "UBUNTU-CVE-2016-9311",
    "UBUNTU-CVE-2017-6458",
    "UBUNTU-CVE-2017-6460",
    "UBUNTU-CVE-2017-6462",
    "UBUNTU-CVE-2017-6463",
    "UBUNTU-CVE-2017-6464"
  ]
}



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