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CVE-2015-7976

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-01-30 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-254

Description

The ntpq saveconfig command in NTP 4.1.2, 4.2.x before 4.2.8p6, 4.3, 4.3.25, 4.3.70, and 4.3.77 does not properly filter special characters, which allows attackers to cause unspecified impact via a crafted filename.

Affected products

• Novell Suse Openstack Cloud: 5
• NTP: through 4.2.8; 4.1.2, 4.3.0, 4.3.1, 4.3.2, 4.3.3, 4.3.4 (+85)
• openSUSE Leap: 42.1
• Opensuse: 13.2
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo: 11-sp2, 11-sp3, 11-sp4
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1: 12, 12-sp1
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server: 10-sp4, 11-sp2, 11-sp3, 11-sp4, 12-sp1
• SUSE Manager: 2.1
• SUSE Manager Proxy: 2.1
• SUSE Linux Enterprise: 12

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00059.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00060.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00020.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00038.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00048.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00026.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00042.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-05/msg00114.html
• http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Main/NtpBug2938
• http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20160127-ntpd
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034782
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3096-1

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