CVE-2015-7852 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2015-7852?

CVE-2015-7852 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 7 Aug 2017. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

ntpq in NTP 4.2.x before 4.2.8p4, and 4.3.x before 4.3.77 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via crafted mode 6 response packets.

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-7852?

It affects 14 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Netapp Clustered Data Ontap, Netapp Data Ontap, Netapp Oncommand Balance, Netapp Oncommand Performance Manager, Netapp Oncommand Unified Manager and 8 more.

How do I fix CVE-2015-7852?

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-2015-7852 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-7852 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2015-7852, GHSA-mrj6-xqg4-cg96, UBUNTU-CVE-2015-7852.