Bug 1271070 (CVE-2015-7704) - CVE-2015-7704 ntp: disabling synchronization via crafted KoD packet
Summary: CVE-2015-7704 ntp: disabling synchronization via crafted KoD packet
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2015-7704
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
high
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1272152 1272153 1272154 1272155 1274165 1283095 1283096 1283536
Blocks: 1260670
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2015-10-13 06:28 UTC by Martin Prpič
Modified: 2022-03-13 13:58 UTC (History)
10 users (show)

Fixed In Version: ntp 4.2.8p4
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
It was discovered that ntpd as a client did not correctly check timestamps in Kiss-of-Death packets. A remote attacker could use this flaw to send a crafted Kiss-of-Death packet to an ntpd client that would increase the client's polling interval value, and effectively disable synchronization with the server.
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Last Closed: 2015-11-26 14:27:34 UTC
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CVE-2015-7704 patch (498 bytes, text/plain)
2015-10-13 06:30 UTC, Martin Prpič
no flags Details


Links
System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Knowledge Base (Solution) 2024443 0 None None None 2016-01-14 06:29:23 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2015:1930 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: ntp security update 2015-10-27 01:22:37 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2015:2520 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: ntp security update 2015-11-26 13:46:24 UTC

Description Martin Prpič 2015-10-13 06:28:38 UTC
When ntpd as an NTP client receives a Kiss-of-Death (KoD) packet from the server to reduce its polling rate, it doesn't check if the originate timestamp in the reply matches the transmit timestamp from its request. An off-path attacker can send a crafted KoD packet to the client, which will increase the client's polling interval to a large value and effectively disable synchronization with the server.

This issue affects ntp versions 4.2.6 and 4.2.8 up to 4.2.8p3.

The attacker can find out to what server the client is currently synchronized by sending it a regular client mode packet and checking the refid field in the reply (the refid is IPv4 address or first four bytes of MD5 sum of IPv6 address).

Upstream bug:

http://bugs.ntp.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2901

Comment 1 Martin Prpič 2015-10-13 06:30:08 UTC
Created attachment 1082270 [details]
CVE-2015-7704 patch

Comment 3 Tomas Hoger 2015-10-15 14:50:10 UTC
Statement:

This issue did not affect the versions of ntp as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4, as they do not include support for KoD packets.

Comment 6 Martin Prpič 2015-10-22 07:36:57 UTC
External References:

https://www.cs.bu.edu/~goldbe/NTPattack.html

Comment 7 Martin Prpič 2015-10-22 07:38:45 UTC
Created ntp tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1274165]

Comment 9 Martin Prpič 2015-10-22 09:52:30 UTC
The upstream patch for this issue (included in upstream version 4.2.8p4) is incomplete, as described in:

https://lists.ntp.org/pipermail/pool/2015-October/007631.html

Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2015-10-26 21:23:37 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2015:1930 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1930.html

Comment 11 Fedora Update System 2015-11-02 18:53:08 UTC
ntp-4.2.6p5-34.fc23 has been pushed to the Fedora 23 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 12 Fedora Update System 2015-11-04 22:49:43 UTC
ntp-4.2.6p5-34.fc21 has been pushed to the Fedora 21 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 15 errata-xmlrpc 2015-11-26 08:46:38 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 EUS - Server and Compute Node Only
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 EUS - Server and Compute Node Only

Via RHSA-2015:2520 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2520.html

Comment 16 Fedora Update System 2016-02-21 02:25:28 UTC
ntp-4.2.6p5-36.fc22 has been pushed to the Fedora 22 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.


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