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CVE-2017-6463

Publication date 27 March 2017

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Low

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.5 · Medium

Score breakdown

NTP before 4.2.8p10 and 4.3.x before 4.3.94 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via an invalid setting in a :config directive, related to the unpeer option.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
ntp 18.10 cosmic
Not affected
18.04 LTS bionic
Not affected
17.10 artful
Not affected
17.04 zesty
Fixed 1:4.2.8p9+dfsg-2ubuntu1.1
16.10 yakkety
Fixed 1:4.2.8p8+dfsg-1ubuntu2.1
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 1:4.2.8p4+dfsg-3ubuntu5.5
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 1:4.2.6.p5+dfsg-3ubuntu2.14.04.11
12.04 LTS precise Ignored end of life

Patch details

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Package Patch details
ntp

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 6.5 · Medium
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required Low
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact None
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

Other references