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CVE-2017-6451

ntp: Improper use of snprintf() in mx4200_send()

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Severity

Low

Red Hat Product Security

7

CVSS 3.0

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Published · March 21, 2017

Updated · May 13, 2026

Description

A vulnerability was found in NTP, in the legacy MX4200 refclock implementation. If this refclock was compiled in and used, an attacker may be able to induce stack overflow, leading to a crash or potential code execution.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.0 · 7
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CWE-121 · Stack-based Buffer Overflow