CVE-2015-7978

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, 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

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
ntp (PTS)	bullseye	1:4.2.8p15+dfsg-1	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Origin
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

Notes

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