CVE-2009-0159

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 13.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2009-04-14 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the cookedprint function in ntpq/ntpq.c in ntpq in NTP before 4.2.4p7-RC2 allows remote NTP servers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted response.

Affected products

NTP: through 4.2.4p7; 4.0.72, 4.0.73, 4.0.90, 4.0.91, 4.0.92, 4.0.93 (+22)

References

http://bugs.pardus.org.tr/show_bug.cgi?id=9532
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/May/msg00002.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-06/msg00003.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=136482797910018&w=2
http://ntp.bkbits.net:8080/ntp-stable/?PAGE=gnupatch&REV=1.1565
http://osvdb.org/53593
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1039.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1040.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/34608
http://secunia.com/advisories/35074
http://secunia.com/advisories/35137

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