CVE-2017-6459

Impact:
Low
Public Date:
2017-03-21
IAVA:
2017-A-0084
Bugzilla:
1435565: CVE-2017-6459 ntp: Data Structure terminated insufficiently

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

The Windows installer for NTP before 4.2.8p10 and 4.3.x before 4.3.94 allows local users to have unspecified impact via vectors related to an argument with multiple null bytes.

Find out more about CVE-2017-6459 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

This issue did not affect the versions of ntp as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

CVSS v3 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v3 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

CVSS3 Base Score 1.8
CVSS3 Base Metrics CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Attack Vector Local
Attack Complexity High
Privileges Required High
User Interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Low

Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 ntp Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 ntp Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 ntp Not affected

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank the NTP project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Cure53 as the original reporter.

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