CVE-2015-7701

Una fuga de memoria en la función CRYPTO_ASSOC en ntpd en NTP 4.2.x en versiones anteriores a 4.2.8p4, y 4.3.x en versiones anteriores a 4.3.77 permite que atacantes remotos provoquen una denegación de servicio (consumo de memoria).

A memory leak flaw was found in ntpd's CRYPTO_ASSOC. If ntpd was 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.

Multiple Cisco products incorporate a version of the ntpd package. Versions of this package are affected by one or more vulnerabilities that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to create a denial of service (DoS) condition or modify the time being advertised by a device acting as a network time protocol (NTP) server. On October 21st, 2015, NTP.org released a security advisory detailing 13 issues regarding multiple DoS vulnerabilities, information disclosure vulnerabilities, and logic issues that may result in an attacker gaining the ability to modify an NTP server's advertised time.