{
  "threat_severity" : "Low",
  "public_date" : "2017-03-21T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "ntp: Buffer Overflow in DPTS Clock",
    "id" : "1433995",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1433995"
  },
  "cvss3" : {
    "cvss3_base_score" : "6.4",
    "cvss3_scoring_vector" : "CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "cwe" : "CWE-20->CWE-121",
  "details" : [ "Buffer overflow in the legacy Datum Programmable Time Server (DPTS) refclock driver in NTP before 4.2.8p10 and 4.3.x before 4.3.94 allows local users to have unspecified impact via a crafted /dev/datum device.", "A vulnerability was found in NTP, in the parsing of packets from the /dev/datum device. A malicious device could send crafted messages, causing ntpd to crash." ],
  "acknowledgement" : "Red Hat would like to thank the NTP project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Cure53 as the original reporter.",
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "release_date" : "2017-10-26T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2017:3071",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6",
    "package" : "ntp-0:4.2.6p5-12.el6_9.1"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "release_date" : "2018-04-10T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2018:0855",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7",
    "package" : "ntp-0:4.2.6p5-28.el7"
  } ],
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5",
    "fix_state" : "Will not fix",
    "package_name" : "ntp",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-6462\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-6462" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2017-6462",
  "mitigation" : {
    "value" : "Properly monitor your ntpd instances, and auto-restart ntpd (without -g) if it stops running.",
    "lang" : "en:us"
  },
  "csaw" : false
}