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NTP: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer (CVE-2017-6452)

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NTP: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer (CVE-2017-6452)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
03/27/2017
Created
02/28/2023
Added
02/23/2023
Modified
03/01/2023

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the Windows installer for NTP before 4.2.8p10 and 4.3.x before 4.3.94 allows local users to have unspecified impact via an application path on the command line.

Solution(s)

  • ntp-upgrade-latest

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