7.3 High
AI Score
Confidence
High
10 High
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
0.968 High
EPSS
Percentile
99.7%
Buffer overflow in ntpd ntp daemon 4.0.99k and earlier (aka
xntpd and xntp3) allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute
arbitrary commands via a long readvar argument.
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
CPE = "cpe:/a:ntp:ntp";
if(description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.150696");
script_version("2024-02-20T05:05:48+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2024-02-20 05:05:48 +0000 (Tue, 20 Feb 2024)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2021-06-21 09:34:21 +0000 (Mon, 21 Jun 2021)");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"10.0");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C");
script_cve_id("CVE-2001-0414");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"remote_banner_unreliable");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_name("NTP < 4.2 DoS Vulnerability");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2021 Greenbone AG");
script_family("Denial of Service");
script_dependencies("ntp_open.nasl", "gb_ntp_detect_lin.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("ntpd/version/detected");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"Buffer overflow in ntpd ntp daemon 4.0.99k and earlier (aka
xntpd and xntp3) allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute
arbitrary commands via a long readvar argument.");
script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"Please see the references for more information on the vulnerabilities.");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"NTPd version 4.0.99k and prior.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Update to version 4.2 or later.");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Main/SecurityNotice#June_2001_Buffer_overflow_in_ntp");
exit(0);
}
include("host_details.inc");
include("version_func.inc");
if (isnull(port = get_app_port(cpe: CPE)))
exit(0);
if (!infos = get_app_full(cpe: CPE, port: port, exit_no_version: TRUE))
exit(0);
version = infos["version"];
location = infos["location"];
proto = infos["proto"];
if (version_is_less(version: version, test_version: "4.2")) {
report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "4.2", install_path: location);
security_message(port: port, proto: proto, data: report);
exit(0);
}
exit(99);