IBM Flex System Chassis Management Module (CMM) has addressed the following vulnerabilities in NTP.
IBM Flex System Chassis Management Module (CMM) has addressed the following vulnerabilities in NTP.
Vulnerability Details
CVE-ID: CVE-2015-7973
Description: NTP could allow a remote attacker to launch a replay attack. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability using authenticated broadcast mode packets to conduct a replay attack and gain unauthorized access to the system.
CVSS Base Score: 5.4
CVSS Temporal Score: See <http://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/110018> for current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L)
CVE-ID: CVE-2015-7974
Description: NTP could allow a remote authenticated attacker to conduct spoofing attacks, caused by a missing key check. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to impersonate a peer.
CVSS Base Score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See <http://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/110019> for current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N)
CVE-ID: CVE-2015-7975
Description: NTP is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by improper bounds checking by the nextvar() function in ntpq. By sending specially crafted data, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the service to crash.
CVSS Base Score: 4
CVSS Temporal Score: See <http://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/110020> for current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)
CVE-ID: CVE-2015-7976
Description: NTP could allow a remote authenticated attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by the failure to filter special characters from the supplied filename by the ntpq saveconfig command. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to allow dangerous characters in filenames.
CVSS Base Score: 4.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See <http://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/110021> for current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)
CVE-ID: CVE-2015-7977
Description: NTP is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a NULL pointer dereference. By sending a specially crafted ntpdc reslist command, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a segmentation fault.
CVSS Base Score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See <http://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/110022> for current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)
CVE-ID: CVE-2015-7978
Description: NTP is vulnerable to a denial of service. By sending a specially crafted reslist command, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to consume all available stack memory.
CVSS Base Score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See <http://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/110023> for current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)
CVE-ID: CVE-2015-7979
Description: NTP could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions. By sending specially crafted broadcast packets with bad authentication, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the target broadcast client to tear down the association with the broadcast server.
CVSS Base Score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See <http://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/110024> for current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L)
CVE-ID: CVE-2015-8138
Description: NTP could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions. By sending a specially crafted packet with an origin timestamp of zero, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to bypass the timestamp validation check.
CVSS Base Score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See <http://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/110025> for current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)
CVE-ID: CVE-2015-8139
Description: NTP could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by an origin leak in ntpq and ntpdc. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain sensitive information.
CVSS Base Score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See <http://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/110027> for current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)
CVE-ID: CVE-2015-5300
Description: Network Time Protocol (NTP) could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by the failure to correctly implement the threshold limitation for the ‘-g’ option. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability using man-in-the-middle techniques to intercept NTP traffic and make multiple steps larger than the panic threshold.
CVSS Base Score: 4.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See <http://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/107594> for current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)
Note: CVE-2015-5300 is resolved in CMM 2PET14d-2.5.6d.
CVE-ID: CVE-2015-8140
Description: NTP could allow a remote attacker to launch a replay attack. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability using ntpq to conduct a replay attack and gain unauthorized access to the system.
CVSS Base Score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See <http://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/110028> for current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)
CVE-ID: CVE-2015-8158
Description: NTP is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by the improper processing of incoming packets by ntpq. By sending specially crafted data, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the application to enter into an infinite loop.
CVSS Base Score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See <http://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/110026> for current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)
CVE-ID: CVE-2016-1547
Description: NTP is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by the demobilization of a preemptable client association. By sending specially crafted crypto NAK packets, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base Score: 3.7
CVSS Temporal Score: See <http://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/112739> for current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)
CVE-ID: CVE-2016-1549
Description: NTP could allow a remote authenticated attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by the failure to prevent Sybil attacks from authenticated peers. By creating multiple ephemeral associations to win the clock selection of ntpd, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to modify a victim’s clock.
CVSS Base Score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See <http://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/112741> for current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N)
CVE-ID: CVE-2016-1550
Description: NTP could allow a local attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by the failure to use a constant-time memory comparison function when validating the authentication digest on incoming packets. By sending a specially crafted packet with an authentication payload, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to conduct a timing attack to compute the value of the valid authentication digest.
CVSS Base Score: 4
CVSS Temporal Score: See <http://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/112742> for current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N)
CVE-ID: CVE-2016-1551
Description: NTP could allow a remote authenticated attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by the failure to filter IPv4 bogon packets received from the network. If ntpd is configured to use a reference clock, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to spoof refclock packets to ntpd processes.
CVSS Base Score: 3.7
CVSS Temporal Score: See <http://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/112743> for current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)
CVE-ID: CVE-2016-2516
Description: NTP is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by the improper validation of input. By creating a session with duplicate IPs on unconfig directives, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause an assertion failure.
CVSS Base Score: 4.2
CVSS Temporal Score: See <http://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/112744> for current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
CVE-ID: CVE-2016-2518
Description: NTP is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an error when using a specially crafted packet to create a peer association with hmode > 7. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the MATCH_ASSOC() function to trigger an out-of-bounds read.
CVSS Base Score: 2
CVSS Temporal Score: See <http://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/112746> for current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)
CVE-ID: CVE-2016-2517
Description: NTP is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by the improper validation of remote configuration trustedkey/requestkey/controlkey values. By creating a session with duplicate IPs on unconfig directives, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause an assertion botch in ntpd.
CVSS Base Score: 4.2
CVSS Temporal Score: See <http://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/112745> for current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
CVE-ID: CVE-2016-2519
Description: NTP is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by the failure to always check the ctl_getitem() function return value. By sending an overly large value, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base Score: 4.2
CVSS Temporal Score: See <http://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/112747> for current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
Product | Affected Version |
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IBM Flex System Chassis Management Module (CMM) | 2PET |
Firmware fix versions are available on Fix Central: <http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/>
Product | Fix Version |
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IBM Flex System Chassis Management Module (CMM) | |
ibm_fw_cmm_2pet14g-2.5.7g_anyos_noarch | 2PET14g-2.5.7g |
You should verify applying this fix does not cause any compatibility issues.
None.
Related Information
IBM Secure Engineering Web Portal
IBM Product Security Incident Response Blog
Security Bulletin: Vulnerability in NTP affects IBM Flex System Chassis Management Module (CVE-2015-5300)
Lenovo Product Security Advisories
Acknowledgement
None.
Change History
22 September, 2016: Original Version Published
Disclaimer
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CPE | Name | Operator | Version |
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ibm flex system chassis management module (cmm) | eq | 2PET |