CVE-2009-3563 (GCVE-0-2009-3563)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2009-12-09 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 06:31
VLAI
Summary
ntp_request.c in ntpd in NTP before 4.2.4p8, and 4.2.5, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU and bandwidth consumption) by using MODE_PRIVATE to send a spoofed (1) request or (2) response packet that triggers a continuous exchange of MODE_PRIVATE error responses between two NTP daemons.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/568372 third-party-advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/38832 third-party-advisory
http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=conte…
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/def… vdb-entrysignature
http://support.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100071808
http://secunia.com/advisories/38794 third-party-advisory
http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announ… mailing-list
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-an… vendor-advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=531213
http://secunia.com/advisories/38764 third-party-advisory
http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Main/SecurityNoti…
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/MAPG-7X7V6J
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/def… vdb-entrysignature
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37255 vdb-entry
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=136482797910018&w=2 vendor-advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/39593 third-party-advisory
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg… vendor-advisory
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0993 vdb-entry
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1948 vendor-advisory
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=560074
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http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetk… vendor-advisory
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http://secunia.com/advisories/38834 third-party-advisory
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https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1651.html vendor-advisory
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https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0095.html vendor-advisory
http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=conte…
https://lists.ntp.org/pipermail/announce/2009-Dec… mailing-list
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0510 vdb-entry
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1648.html vendor-advisory
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/MAPG-7X7VD7
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0528 vdb-entry
https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/417980 third-party-advisory
Date Public
2009-12-08 00:00
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Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.

Sightings

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Nomenclature

  • Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
  • Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
  • Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
  • Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
  • Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.


Detection rules are retrieved from Rulezet.


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