CVE-2014-9296

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 16.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2014-12-20 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-17

Description

The receive function in ntp_proto.c in ntpd in NTP before 4.2.8 continues to execute after detecting a certain authentication error, which might allow remote attackers to trigger an unintended association change via crafted packets.

Affected products

NTP: through 4.2.7

References

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0541.html
http://bk1.ntp.org/ntp-dev/?PAGE=patch&REV=548ad06feXHK1HlZoY-WZVyynwvwAg
http://bugs.ntp.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2670
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-12/msg00020.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=142590659431171&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=142853370924302&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=144182594518755&w=2
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0104.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/62209
http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Main/SecurityNotice
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/852879
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:003

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