CVE-2019-6442

unknown
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v4 NEW
not yet in upstream
VIR risk
1.0

Description

An issue was discovered in NTPsec before 1.1.3. An authenticated attacker can write one byte out of bounds in ntpd via a malformed config request, related to config_remotely in ntp_config.c, yyparse in ntp_parser.tab.c, and yyerror in ntp_parser.y.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-46178 dos linux verified
Magnus Klaaborg Stubman · 2019-01-16

NTPsec 1.1.2 - 'config' (Authenticated) Out-of-Bounds Write Denial of Service (PoC)

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

OS impact

debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 1.1.3+dfsg1-1
sid Fixed 1.1.3+dfsg1-1
forky Fixed 1.1.3+dfsg1-1
bullseye Fixed 1.1.3+dfsg1-1
bookworm Fixed 1.1.3+dfsg1-1

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.