CVE-2023-26552
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-04-11 00:00
Modified
2025-02-11 15:30
Severity ?
5.6 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
Summary
mstolfp in libntp/mstolfp.c in NTP 4.2.8p15 has an out-of-bounds write when adding a decimal point. An adversary may be able to attack a client ntpq process, but cannot attack ntpd.
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/spwpun/ntp-4.2.8p15-cves/blob/main/CVE-2023-26552Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/spwpun/ntp-4.2.8p15-cves/issues/1#issuecomment-1506667321Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/spwpun/ntp-4.2.8p15-cves/blob/main/CVE-2023-26552Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/spwpun/ntp-4.2.8p15-cves/issues/1#issuecomment-1506667321Third Party Advisory
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