{
  "threat_severity" : "Low",
  "public_date" : "2015-02-04T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "ntp: vallen in extension fields are not validated",
    "id" : "1184573",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1184573"
  },
  "cvss" : {
    "cvss_base_score" : "2.6",
    "cvss_scoring_vector" : "AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "details" : [ "A stack-based buffer overflow was found in the way the NTP autokey protocol was implemented. When an NTP client decrypted a secret received from an NTP server, it could cause that client to crash." ],
  "statement" : "This issue affects the versions of ntp as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.\nRed Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is now in Production 3 Phase of the support and maintenance life cycle. This has been rated as having Low security impact and is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates. For additional information, refer to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Life Cycle: https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/.\nA mitigation for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 7 is available at: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1184573#c16",
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "release_date" : "2015-07-21T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2015:1459",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6",
    "package" : "ntp-0:4.2.6p5-5.el6"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "release_date" : "2015-11-19T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2015:2231",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7",
    "package" : "ntp-0:4.2.6p5-22.el7"
  } ],
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5",
    "fix_state" : "Will not fix",
    "package_name" : "ntp",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-9297\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-9297\nhttp://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Main/SecurityNotice#vallen_is_not_validated_in_sever" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2014-9297",
  "csaw" : false
}