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CVE-2014-9750

Publication date 6 October 2015

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Low

Why this priority?

ntp_crypto.c in ntpd in NTP 4.x before 4.2.8p1, when Autokey Authentication is enabled, allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information from process memory or cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a packet containing an extension field with an invalid value for the length of its value field.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
ntp 15.10 wily
Not affected
15.04 vivid
Not affected
14.04 LTS trusty
Not affected
12.04 LTS precise
Not affected

Notes

sbeattie

autokey auth is not configured on by default

mdeslaur

this used to be known as CVE-2014-9297, patches were released in USN-2497-1

Patch details

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Package Patch details
ntp