| Name | CVE-2015-7978 |
| 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, ENISA, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-559-1, DSA-3629-1 |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ntp | source | wheezy | 1:4.2.6.p5+dfsg-2+deb7u7 | DLA-559-1 | ||
| ntp | source | jessie | 1:4.2.6.p5+dfsg-7+deb8u2 | DSA-3629-1 | ||
| ntp | source | (unstable) | 1:4.2.8p7+dfsg-1 |
http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Main/SecurityNotice#January_2016_NTP_4_2_8p6_Securit
http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Main/NtpBug2940
https://github.com/ntp-project/ntp/commit/8a0c765f3c47633fa262356b0818788d1cf249b1