debian · CVE-2018-12327

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Priority: unimportant Published: Updated: Wed, 08 Jul 2026 05:48:42 GMT

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Tracker summary

CVE-2018-12327 unimportant priority: Debian including 1 source packages (ntp), 1 status rows across 1 suites (bullseye): open 1.

Description:

Stack-based buffer overflow in ntpq and ntpdc of NTP version 4.2.8p11 allows an attacker to achieve code execution or escalate to higher privileges via a long string as the argument for an IPv4 or IPv6 command-line parameter. NOTE: It is unclear whether there are any common situations in which ntpq or ntpdc is used with a command line from an untrusted source.

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