Medium severity6.5NVD Advisory· Published Jan 28, 2020· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2015-7851
CVE-2015-7851
Description
Directory traversal vulnerability in the save_config function in ntpd in ntp_control.c in NTP before 4.2.8p4, when used on systems that do not use '\' or '/' characters for directory separation such as OpenVMS, allows remote authenticated users to overwrite arbitrary files.
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Affected products
20- NTP/ntpddescription
- osv-coords18 versionspkg:rpm/opensuse/ntp&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweedpkg:rpm/suse/ntp&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Desktop%2011%20SP4pkg:rpm/suse/ntp&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Desktop%2012pkg:rpm/suse/ntp&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2011%20SP2-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/ntp&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2011%20SP3-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/ntp&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2011%20SP3-TERADATApkg:rpm/suse/ntp&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2011%20SP4pkg:rpm/suse/ntp&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012pkg:rpm/suse/ntp&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2011%20SP4pkg:rpm/suse/ntp&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012pkg:rpm/suse/ntp&distro=SUSE%20Manager%202.1pkg:rpm/suse/ntp&distro=SUSE%20Manager%20Proxy%202.1pkg:rpm/suse/ntp&distro=SUSE%20OpenStack%20Cloud%205pkg:rpm/suse/yast2-ntp-client&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Desktop%2012pkg:rpm/suse/yast2-ntp-client&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2011%20SP2-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/yast2-ntp-client&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012pkg:rpm/suse/yast2-ntp-client&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012pkg:rpm/suse/yast2-ntp-client&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Software%20Development%20Kit%2012
< 4.2.8p9-1.1+ 17 more
- (no CPE)range: < 4.2.8p9-1.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.2.8p4-5.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.2.8p6-46.5.2
- (no CPE)range: < 4.2.8p6-41.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.2.8p6-41.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.2.8p6-41.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.2.8p4-5.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.2.8p6-46.5.2
- (no CPE)range: < 4.2.8p4-5.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.2.8p6-46.5.2
- (no CPE)range: < 4.2.8p6-41.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.2.8p6-41.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.2.8p6-41.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.1.12.4-8.2
- (no CPE)range: < 2.17.14.1-1.12.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.1.12.4-8.2
- (no CPE)range: < 3.1.12.4-8.2
- (no CPE)range: < 3.1.12.4-8.2
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
3- www.talosintel.com/reports/TALOS-2015-0062/nvdExploitThird Party Advisory
- support.ntp.org/bin/view/Main/NtpBug2918nvdVendor Advisory
- support.ntp.org/bin/view/Main/SecurityNoticenvdRelease NotesVendor Advisory
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