CVE-2019-6442

published 2019-01-16

CVE-2019-6442: An issue was discovered in NTPsec before 1.1.3. An authenticated attacker can write one byte out of bounds in ntpd via a malformed config request, related to…

Priority P3 45 medium 6.5 CVSS 3.0

AV N AC L PR L UI N S U C N I N A H

EXPLOIT

An issue was discovered in NTPsec before 1.1.3. An authenticated attacker can write one byte out of bounds in ntpd via a malformed config request, related to config_remotely in ntp_config.c, yyparse in ntp_parser.tab.c, and yyerror in ntp_parser.y.

Affected

7 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
debian	ntpsec	< ntpsec 1.1.3+dfsg1-1 (bookworm)	ntpsec 1.1.3+dfsg1-1 (bookworm)
google	chrome_chrome	—	—
ntpsec	ntpsec	< 1.1.3	1.1.3
ntpsec	ntpsec	>= 0 < 1.1.3+dfsg1-1	1.1.3+dfsg1-1
ntpsec	ntpsec	>= 0 < 1.1.3+dfsg1-1	1.1.3+dfsg1-1
ntpsec	ntpsec	>= 0 < 1.1.3+dfsg1-1	1.1.3+dfsg1-1
ntpsec	ntpsec	>= 0 < 1.1.3+dfsg1-1	1.1.3+dfsg1-1

CVSS provenance

nvd v3.0 6.5 MEDIUM CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

nvd v2.0 4.0 MEDIUM AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

osv 6.5 MEDIUM

vendor_debian 6.5 MEDIUM

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