Mageia: 2018-0371 Critical Advisory: NTP Buffer Overflow Risk
mageia
September 13, 2018
Updated ntp packages fix security vulnerability: Stack-based buffer overflow in ntpq and ntpdc of NTP version 4.2.8p11 allows an attacker to achieve code execution or escalate to ...
Summary
Updated ntp packages fix security vulnerability:
Stack-based buffer overflow in ntpq and ntpdc of NTP version 4.2.8p11
allows an attacker to achieve code execution or escalate to higher
privileges via a long string as the argument for an IPv4 or IPv6
command-line parameter (CVE-2018-12327).
References
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23505
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/437XM4CMBCMPK7D2RSEUZIRLFZD5ZNRD/
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-12327
Topics Covered
Resolution
SRPMS
- 6/core/ntp-4.2.8p12-1.mga6
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Publication date: 13 Sep 2018
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2018-0371.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2018-12327
Topics Covered
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