CVE-2014-9750

ntp_crypto.c en ntpd en NTP 4.x en versiones anteriores a 4.2.8p1, cuando Autokey Authentication está habilitada, permite a atacantes remotos obtener información sensible de la memoria de proceso o causar una denegación de servicio (caída del demonio) a través de un paquete que contiene un campo extension con un valor no válido para la longitud de su campo de valor.

A stack-based buffer overflow was found in the way the NTP autokey protocol was implemented. When an NTP client decrypted a secret received from an NTP server, it could cause that client to crash.

The Network Time Protocol is used to synchronize a computer's time with another referenced time source. These packages include the ntpd service which continuously adjusts system time and utilities used to query and configure the ntpd service. It was found that because NTP's access control was based on a source IP address, an attacker could bypass source IP restrictions and send malicious control and configuration packets by spoofing ::1 addresses. A denial of service flaw was found in the way NTP hosts that were peering with each other authenticated themselves before updating their internal state variables. An attacker could send packets to one peer host, which could cascade to other peers, and stop the synchronization process among the reached peers.