VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2015-7978

CVSS score7.5 HIGH
EPSS probability9.90%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2017-01-30
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Primary references