USN-2567-1: ntp Ubuntu
CVSS: UnknownPublished
Published 13-04-2015Last modified 10-02-2026
Vulnerability summary
USN-2567-1 is a vulnerability in ntp Ubuntu with no CVSS score yet.
CVSS score
Not scored
010
No CVSS score recordedEPSS score
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0%100%
No EPSS score yetKEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded
Advisory lineage
Upstream 2 · Downstream 0 · Related 3Timeline
- 13-04-2015PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 10-02-2026Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
Description
ntp vulnerabilities Miroslav Lichvar discovered that NTP incorrectly validated MAC fields. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to bypass authentication and spoof packets. (CVE-2015-1798) Miroslav Lichvar discovered that NTP incorrectly handled certain invalid packets. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2015-1799) Juergen Perlinger discovered that NTP incorrectly generated MD5 keys on big-endian platforms. This issue could either cause ntp-keygen to hang, or could result in non-random keys. (CVE number pending)
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Public exploits
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Weaknesses
CWE · root causeNo weakness data has been published for this record.
Affected systems
Ubuntu1 product
- ntp< 1:4.2.6.p5+dfsg-3ubuntu2.14.04.3
1 vendor · 1 product
References
3 linksRelated vulnerabilities
USN-3707-1ubuntuntpntp vulnerabilities
Yihan Lian discovered that NTP incorrectly handled certain malformed mode 6
packets. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause ntpd to
crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu
17.10 and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2018-7182)
Michael Macnair discovered that NTP incorrectly handled certain responses.
A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code.
(CVE-2018-7183)
Miroslav Lichvar discovered that NTP incorrectly handled certain
zero-origin timestamps. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to
cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 17.10 and Ubuntu
18.04 LTS. (CVE-2018-7184)
Miroslav Lichvar discovered that NTP incorrectly handled certain
zero-origin timestamps. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to
cause a denial of service. (CVE-2018-7185)USN-3349-1ubuntuntpntp vulnerabilities
Yihan Lian discovered that NTP incorrectly handled certain large request
data values. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause NTP
to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. (CVE-2016-2519)
Miroslav Lichvar discovered that NTP incorrectly handled certain spoofed
addresses when performing rate limiting. A remote attacker could possibly
use this issue to perform a denial of service. This issue only affected
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 16.10. (CVE-2016-7426)
Matthew Van Gundy discovered that NTP incorrectly handled certain crafted
broadcast mode packets. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to
perform a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS,
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 16.10. (CVE-2016-7427, CVE-2016-7428)
Miroslav Lichvar discovered that NTP incorrectly handled certain responses.
A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to perform a denial of
service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, and
Ubuntu 16.10. (CVE-2016-7429)
Sharon Goldberg and Aanchal Malhotra discovered that NTP incorrectly
handled origin timestamps of zero. A remote attacker could possibly use
this issue to bypass the origin timestamp protection mechanism. This issue
only affected Ubuntu 16.10. (CVE-2016-7431)
Brian Utterback, Sharon Goldberg and Aanchal Malhotra discovered that NTP
incorrectly performed initial sync calculations. This issue only applied
to Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.10. (CVE-2016-7433)
Magnus Stubman discovered that NTP incorrectly handled certain mrulist
queries. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause NTP to
crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu
16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.10. (CVE-2016-7434)
Matthew Van Gund discovered that NTP incorrectly handled origin timestamp
checks. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to perform a denial
of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu Ubuntu 16.10, and Ubuntu 17.04.
(CVE-2016-9042)
Matthew Van Gundy discovered that NTP incorrectly handled certain control
mode packets. A remote attacker could use this issue to set or unset traps.
This issue only applied to Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu
16.10. (CVE-2016-9310)
Matthew Van Gundy discovered that NTP incorrectly handled the trap service.
A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause NTP to crash,
resulting in a denial of service. This issue only applied to Ubuntu 14.04
LTS, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.10. (CVE-2016-9311)
It was discovered that NTP incorrectly handled memory when processing long
variables. A remote authenticated user could possibly use this issue to
cause NTP to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2017-6458)
It was discovered that NTP incorrectly handled memory when processing long
variables. A remote authenticated user could possibly use this issue to
cause NTP to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only
applied to Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.10 and Ubuntu 17.04. (CVE-2017-6460)
It was discovered that the NTP legacy DPTS refclock driver incorrectly
handled the /dev/datum device. A local attacker could possibly use this
issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2017-6462)
It was discovered that NTP incorrectly handled certain invalid settings
in a :config directive. A remote authenticated user could possibly use
this issue to cause NTP to crash, resulting in a denial of service.
(CVE-2017-6463)
It was discovered that NTP incorrectly handled certain invalid mode
configuration directives. A remote authenticated user could possibly use
this issue to cause NTP to crash, resulting in a denial of service.
(CVE-2017-6464)USN-3096-1ubuntuntpntp vulnerabilities
Aanchal Malhotra discovered that NTP incorrectly handled authenticated
broadcast mode. A remote attacker could use this issue to perform a replay
attack. (CVE-2015-7973)
Matt Street discovered that NTP incorrectly verified peer associations of
symmetric keys. A remote attacker could use this issue to perform an
impersonation attack. (CVE-2015-7974)
Jonathan Gardner discovered that the NTP ntpq utility incorrectly handled
memory. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause ntpq to crash,
resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04
LTS. (CVE-2015-7975)
Jonathan Gardner discovered that the NTP ntpq utility incorrectly handled
dangerous characters in filenames. An attacker could possibly use this
issue to overwrite arbitrary files. (CVE-2015-7976)
Stephen Gray discovered that NTP incorrectly handled large restrict lists.
An attacker could use this issue to cause NTP to crash, resulting in a
denial of service. (CVE-2015-7977, CVE-2015-7978)
Aanchal Malhotra discovered that NTP incorrectly handled authenticated
broadcast mode. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause NTP to
crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2015-7979)
Jonathan Gardner discovered that NTP incorrectly handled origin timestamp
checks. A remote attacker could use this issue to spoof peer servers.
(CVE-2015-8138)
Jonathan Gardner discovered that the NTP ntpq utility did not properly
handle certain incorrect values. An attacker could possibly use this issue
to cause ntpq to hang, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2015-8158)
It was discovered that the NTP cronjob incorrectly cleaned up the
statistics directory. A local attacker could possibly use this to escalate
privileges. (CVE-2016-0727)
Stephen Gray and Matthew Van Gundy discovered that NTP incorrectly
validated crypto-NAKs. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to
prevent clients from synchronizing. (CVE-2016-1547)
Miroslav Lichvar and Jonathan Gardner discovered that NTP incorrectly
handled switching to interleaved symmetric mode. A remote attacker could
possibly use this issue to prevent clients from synchronizing.
(CVE-2016-1548)
Matthew Van Gundy, Stephen Gray and Loganaden Velvindron discovered that
NTP incorrectly handled message authentication. A remote attacker could
possibly use this issue to recover the message digest key. (CVE-2016-1550)
Yihan Lian discovered that NTP incorrectly handled duplicate IPs on
unconfig directives. An authenticated remote attacker could possibly use
this issue to cause NTP to crash, resulting in a denial of service.
(CVE-2016-2516)
Yihan Lian discovered that NTP incorrectly handled certail peer
associations. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause NTP
to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2016-2518)
Jakub Prokes discovered that NTP incorrectly handled certain spoofed
packets. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial
of service. (CVE-2016-4954)
Miroslav Lichvar discovered that NTP incorrectly handled certain packets
when autokey is enabled. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to
cause a denial of service. (CVE-2016-4955)
Miroslav Lichvar discovered that NTP incorrectly handled certain spoofed
broadcast packets. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to
cause a denial of service. (CVE-2016-4956)
In the default installation, attackers would be isolated by the NTP
AppArmor profile.USN-2783-1ubuntuntpntp vulnerabilities
Aleksis Kauppinen discovered that NTP incorrectly handled certain remote
config packets. In a non-default configuration, a remote authenticated
attacker could possibly use this issue to cause NTP to crash, resulting in
a denial of service. (CVE-2015-5146)
Miroslav Lichvar discovered that NTP incorrectly handled logconfig
directives. In a non-default configuration, a remote authenticated attacker
could possibly use this issue to cause NTP to crash, resulting in a denial
of service. (CVE-2015-5194)
Miroslav Lichvar discovered that NTP incorrectly handled certain statistics
types. In a non-default configuration, a remote authenticated attacker
could possibly use this issue to cause NTP to crash, resulting in a denial
of service. (CVE-2015-5195)
Miroslav Lichvar discovered that NTP incorrectly handled certain file
paths. In a non-default configuration, a remote authenticated attacker
could possibly use this issue to cause NTP to crash, resulting in a denial
of service, or overwrite certain files. (CVE-2015-5196, CVE-2015-7703)
Miroslav Lichvar discovered that NTP incorrectly handled certain packets.
A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause NTP to hang,
resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2015-5219)
Aanchal Malhotra, Isaac E. Cohen, and Sharon Goldberg discovered that NTP
incorrectly handled restarting after hitting a panic threshold. A remote
attacker could possibly use this issue to alter the system time on clients.
(CVE-2015-5300)
It was discovered that NTP incorrectly handled autokey data packets. A
remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause NTP to crash,
resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.
(CVE-2015-7691, CVE-2015-7692, CVE-2015-7702)
It was discovered that NTP incorrectly handled memory when processing
certain autokey messages. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue
to cause NTP to consume memory, resulting in a denial of service.
(CVE-2015-7701)
Aanchal Malhotra, Isaac E. Cohen, and Sharon Goldberg discovered that NTP
incorrectly handled rate limiting. A remote attacker could possibly use
this issue to cause clients to stop updating their clock. (CVE-2015-7704,
CVE-2015-7705)
Yves Younan discovered that NTP incorrectly handled logfile and keyfile
directives. In a non-default configuration, a remote authenticated attacker
could possibly use this issue to cause NTP to enter a loop, resulting in a
denial of service. (CVE-2015-7850)
Yves Younan and Aleksander Nikolich discovered that NTP incorrectly handled
ascii conversion. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause
NTP to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute
arbitrary code. (CVE-2015-7852)
Yves Younan discovered that NTP incorrectly handled reference clock memory.
A malicious refclock could possibly use this issue to cause NTP to crash,
resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.
(CVE-2015-7853)
John D "Doug" Birdwell discovered that NTP incorrectly handled decoding
certain bogus values. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause
NTP to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2015-7855)
Stephen Gray discovered that NTP incorrectly handled symmetric association
authentication. A remote attacker could use this issue to possibly bypass
authentication and alter the system clock. (CVE-2015-7871)
In the default installation, attackers would be isolated by the NTP
AppArmor profile.USN-2497-1ubuntuntpntp vulnerabilities
Stephen Roettger, Sebastian Krahmer, and Harlan Stenn discovered that NTP
incorrectly handled the length value in extension fields. A remote attacker
could use this issue to possibly obtain leaked information, or cause the
NTP daemon to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2014-9297)
Stephen Roettger discovered that NTP incorrectly handled ACLs based on
certain IPv6 addresses. (CVE-2014-9298)USN-2449-1ubuntuntpntp vulnerabilities
Neel Mehta discovered that NTP generated weak authentication keys. A remote
attacker could possibly use this issue to brute force the authentication
key and send requests if permitted by IP restrictions. (CVE-2014-9293)
Stephen Roettger discovered that NTP generated weak MD5 keys. A remote
attacker could possibly use this issue to brute force the MD5 key and spoof
a client or server. (CVE-2014-9294)
Stephen Roettger discovered that NTP contained buffer overflows in the
crypto_recv(), ctl_putdata() and configure() functions. In non-default
configurations, a remote attacker could use these issues to cause NTP to
crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary
code. The default compiler options for affected releases should reduce the
vulnerability to a denial of service. In addition, attackers would be
isolated by the NTP AppArmor profile. (CVE-2014-9295)
Stephen Roettger discovered that NTP incorrectly continued processing when
handling certain errors. (CVE-2014-9296)