CVE-2015-5219 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2015-5219?

CVE-2015-5219 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 21 Jul 2017. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The ULOGTOD function in ntp.d in SNTP before 4.2.7p366 does not properly perform type conversions from a precision value to a double, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a crafted NTP packet.

Weakness: CWE-704

Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-5219?

It affects 18 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Debian Debian Linux, Fedoraproject Fedora, Novell Leap, Ntp Ntp, Opensuse Leap and 12 more.

How do I fix CVE-2015-5219?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2015-5219 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-5219 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Canonical Ubuntu Linux

• CVE-2020-11651 SaltStack Salt Authentication Bypass Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-7247 OpenSMTPD Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-16928 Exim Out-of-bounds Write Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-6789 Exim Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-2590 Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8

All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2015-5219, GHSA-38qh-x54p-8w2g, UBUNTU-CVE-2015-5219.