Bug 1274255 (CVE-2015-7701) - CVE-2015-7701 ntp: slow memory leak in CRYPTO_ASSOC
Summary: CVE-2015-7701 ntp: slow memory leak in CRYPTO_ASSOC
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2015-7701
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1274351 1296207 1317795
Blocks: 1260670 1323912
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Reported: 2015-10-22 11:29 UTC by Martin Prpič
Modified: 2021-02-17 04:48 UTC (History)
8 users (show)

Fixed In Version: ntp 4.2.8p4
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2016-11-06 04:13:50 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2016:0780 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: ntp security and bug fix update 2016-05-10 22:35:43 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2016:2583 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: ntp security and bug fix update 2016-11-03 12:08:36 UTC

Description Martin Prpič 2015-10-22 11:29:12 UTC 
A memory leak flaw was found in ntpd's CRYPTO_ASSOC. If ntpd is configured to use autokey authentication, an attacker could send packets to ntpd that would, after several days of ongoing attack, cause it to run out of memory.

Mitigation:

Disable NTP autokey authentication by removing, or commenting out, all configuration directives beginning with the 'crypto' keyword in your ntp.conf file.

External References:

https://github.com/ntp-project/ntp/blob/stable/NEWS#L91
http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Main/SecurityNotice#October_2015_NTP_Security_Vulner
Comment 1 Martin Prpič 2015-10-22 14:35:19 UTC 
Created ntp tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1274351]
Comment 2 Martin Prpič 2015-10-23 09:26:35 UTC 
Upstream patch:

https://github.com/ntp-project/ntp/commit/d7cd5e186034340402f1393e0813c7d2b14ea6ca
Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2015-11-02 18:52:55 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 4 Fedora Update System 2015-11-04 22:49:31 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 9 Fedora Update System 2016-02-21 02:25:14 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.
Comment 11 errata-xmlrpc 2016-05-10 20:17:34 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2016:0780 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0780.html
Comment 12 errata-xmlrpc 2016-11-03 19:33:01 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2016:2583 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2583.html
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