CVE-2015-7978

Description

NTP before 4.2.8p6 and 4.3.0 before 4.3.90 allows a remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack exhaustion) via an ntpdc relist command, which triggers recursive traversal of the restriction list.

Risk Information

Base Score
7.5
MODERATE
Vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score
Exploitation Probability
42.548

Associated Vulnerability

VulnerabilityOS Platform
Multiple Vulnerabilities in Network Time Protocol Daemon Affecting Cisco Products: January 2016 For Cisco IOS XE SoftwareNCM
Multiple Vulnerabilities in Network Time Protocol Daemon Affecting Cisco Products: January 2016 For Cisco NX-OS SoftwareNCM
Uncontrolled Resource Consumption Vulnerability (CVE-2015-7978)NCM

Patch Details

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Patch IDPatch Description
PATCH-1706107Security Update for Cisco IOS XE Software 5.2(1)SV5(1.3a)
PATCH-1706149Security Update for Cisco NX-OS Software 4.1(3a)UCSM

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234