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Vulnerability record · CVE-2015-7978 · published 30 January 2017

CVE-2015-7978: Ntp uncontrolled resource consumption vulnerability

Ntp · Ntp

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.

7.5 CVSS 3.0 High EPSS 10.0% · top 4.5% CWE-400 · Uncontrolled resource consumption
7.5CVSS 3.0 base score, v2 5.0
10.0%EPSS exploitation probability, 30 days
NoNot in CISA KEV
1Affected product versions listed by NVD
48References
17 Jun 2026Last modified by NVD

Description

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.

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products

1 vulnerable configurations from NVD's CPE data, grouped by vendor and product.

References

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http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/177507.html Third Party Advisory
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/176434.html Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00059.html Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00060.html Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00020.html Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00038.html Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00048.html Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00026.html Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00042.html Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-05/msg00114.html Third Party Advisory
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0780.html Third Party Advisory
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2583.html Third Party Advisory
http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Main/SecurityNotice#April_2016_NTP_4_2_8p7_Security Vendor Advisory
http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20160127-ntpd Third Party Advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3629 Third Party Advisory
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinapr2016-2952096.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/81962 Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034782 Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3096-1 Third Party Advisory
https://bto.bluecoat.com/security-advisory/sa113 Third Party Advisory
https://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-16:09.ntp.asc
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-15 Third Party Advisory
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20171031-0001/
https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/718152 Third Party AdvisoryUS Government Resource
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/177507.html Third Party Advisory
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/176434.html Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00059.html Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00060.html Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00020.html Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00038.html Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00048.html Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00026.html Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00042.html Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-05/msg00114.html Third Party Advisory
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0780.html Third Party Advisory
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2583.html Third Party Advisory
http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Main/SecurityNotice#April_2016_NTP_4_2_8p7_Security Vendor Advisory
http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20160127-ntpd Third Party Advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3629 Third Party Advisory
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinapr2016-2952096.html

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Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database (record CVE-2015-7978), CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS (scores of 2026-09-26). This page is refreshed as NVD updates the record.