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CVE-2015-7853

Description

A potential buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the refclock of ntpd. An invalid length provided by a hardware reference clock could cause a buffer overflow potentially resulting in memory being modified. A malicious reflock could provide a negative length to trigger this vulnerability.

Priority: HIGH
CVSS v3: 9.8
Component: ntp
Publish Date: Oct 28, 2015
Related ID: --
CVSS v2: Critical
Modified Date: Oct 28, 2015

Find out more about CVE-2015-7853 from the MITRE-CVE dictionary and NIST NVD


Products Affected

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Product Name Status Defect Fixed Downloads
Linux
Wind River Linux LTS 17 Not Vulnerable -- -- --
Wind River Linux 8 Fixed -- 8.0.0.0 --
Wind River Linux 9 Not Vulnerable -- -- --
Wind River Linux 7 Fixed -- 7.0.0.11 --
Wind River Linux LTS 21 Not Vulnerable -- -- --
Wind River Linux LTS 22 Not Vulnerable -- -- --
Wind River Linux LTS 18 Not Vulnerable -- -- --
Wind River Linux LTS 19 Not Vulnerable -- -- --
Wind River Linux CD release Not Vulnerable -- -- --
Wind River Linux 6 Fixed -- 6.0.0.26 --
Wind River Linux LTS 23 Not Vulnerable -- -- --
VxWorks
VxWorks 7 Fixed -- ntp-1.2.0.0 --
VxWorks 6.9 Fixed -- 6.9.4.7 --
Helix Virtualization Platform Cert Edition
Helix Virtualization Platform Cert Edition Not Vulnerable -- -- --

Related Products

Product Name Status Defect Fixed Downloads

Notes
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