Bug 1433987 (CVE-2017-6464)

Summary:	CVE-2017-6464 ntp: Denial of Service via Malformed Config
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Adam Mariš <amaris>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	apmukher, dmoppert, duge, hasuzuki, kbost, kvolny, linville, mdshaikh, mlichvar, nupur.priya, psampaio, santony, sardella, security-response-team, slawomir, yiwu, yozone
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://bugs.ntp.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3389
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Fixed In Version:	ntp 4.2.8p10, ntp 4.3.94	Doc Type:	If docs needed, set a value
Doc Text:	A vulnerability was discovered in the NTP server's parsing of configuration directives. A remote, authenticated attacker could cause ntpd to crash by sending a crafted message.	Story Points:	---
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Last Closed:	2017-10-26 07:10:28 UTC	Type:	---
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oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
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Bug Depends On:	1435163, 1437714, 1437715, 1437716, 1437717, 1499184
Bug Blocks:	1434021, 1498774

Description Adam Mariš 2017-03-20 13:55:36 UTC

A vulnerability found in the NTP server makes it possible for an authenticated remote user to crash ntpd via a malformed mode configuration directive.

Mitigation:

Properly monitor your ntpd instances, and auto-restart ntpd (without -g) if it stops running.

Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2017-03-20 13:55:42 UTC

Acknowledgments:

Name: the NTP project
Upstream: Cure53

Comment 5 Adam Mariš 2017-03-23 10:08:10 UTC

Created ntp tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1435163]

Comment 7 Doran Moppert 2017-03-30 05:53:44 UTC

In ntp-4.2.6p5 and ntp-4.2.4p8, the ttl value is an unsigned char (rather than uint32), limiting the OOB read to a (256-8)-byte region. Testing on x86_64 fails to cause a crash.

Different compiler or linker options, or different hardware, could still result in a crash being possible through this vector.

Comment 10 nupur priya 2017-04-27 07:38:40 UTC

Is RHEL-7 vulnerable to this?

Comment 18 errata-xmlrpc 2017-10-26 07:03:44 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2017:3071 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3071

Comment 19 errata-xmlrpc 2018-04-10 08:26:11 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2018:0855 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0855