CVE-2015-7854

Publication date 7 August 2017

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

Buffer overflow in the password management functionality in NTP 4.2.x before 4.2.8p4, and 4.3.x before 4.3.77 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted key file.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Show unmaintained releases

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

mdeslaur

same patches as CVE-2015-7849 precise to wily don't look vulnerable

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
ntp	Upstream: 9c22e66 Upstream: 1bb4015

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 8.8 · High

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	Low
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality impact	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	8.8 · High
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H