CVE-2015-7978

HighCVSS 7.5/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 7.5/10CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weakness enumeration

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published
Jan 30, 2017
Last modified
Jun 17, 2026
NVD status
Modified

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CVE-2015-7978: High severity, CVSS 7.5 | Vulnix