Vigil@nce - NTP.org: NULL pointer dereference via Authenticated Mode 6
May 2019 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
Impacted products: Fedora, Meinberg NTP Server, Data ONTAP,
NTP.org, openSUSE Leap, Slackware, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop,
SLES.
Severity: 2/4.
Consequences: denial of service on service, denial of service on
client.
Provenance: user account.
Confidence: confirmed by the editor (5/5).
Creation date: 08/03/2019.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can force a NULL pointer to be dereferenced via
Authenticated Mode 6 of NTP.org, in order to trigger a denial of
service.
ACCESS TO THE FULL VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN
https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/NTP-org-NULL-pointer-dereference-via-Authenticated-Mode-6-28701