K06288381 : NTP vulnerabilities CVE-2015-7977 and CVE-2015-7978

Security Advisory Description

• CVE-2015-7977

ntpd in NTP before 4.2.8p6 and 4.3.x before 4.3.90 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) via a ntpdc reslist command.

• CVE-2015-7978

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.

Impact

A remote attacker may exploit this flaw to crash the ntpdprocess.