Vulnerabilities / CVE-2019-6444

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CVE-2019-6444

An issue was discovered in NTPsec before 1.1.3. process_control() in n ...

Published Modified CWE 125
In the Trivy database since at least 24 Oct 2026, 07:11 UTCWhen it arrived before that build is not recorded.

Severity by source

NVD9.1CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

Trivy's own label is CRITICAL. Rated critical by NVD. Rated lower by Ubuntu (medium).

Description

An issue was discovered in NTPsec before 1.1.3. process_control() in ntp_control.c has a stack-based buffer over-read because attacker-controlled data is dereferenced by ntohl() in ntpd.

Affected packages and fixed versions

SourcePackageFixed in
alpine 3.10ntpsec1.1.3-r0
alpine 3.11ntpsec1.1.3-r0
alpine 3.12ntpsec1.1.3-r0
alpine 3.13ntpsec1.1.3-r0
alpine 3.14ntpsec1.1.3-r0
alpine 3.15ntpsec1.1.3-r0
alpine 3.16ntpsec1.1.3-r0
alpine 3.17ntpsec1.1.3-r0
alpine 3.18ntpsec1.1.3-r0
alpine 3.19ntpsec1.1.3-r0
alpine 3.20ntpsec1.1.3-r0
alpine 3.21ntpsec1.1.3-r0
Show all 24 entries from 24 sources
SourcePackageFixed in
alpine 3.10ntpsec1.1.3-r0
alpine 3.11ntpsec1.1.3-r0
alpine 3.12ntpsec1.1.3-r0
alpine 3.13ntpsec1.1.3-r0
alpine 3.14ntpsec1.1.3-r0
alpine 3.15ntpsec1.1.3-r0
alpine 3.16ntpsec1.1.3-r0
alpine 3.17ntpsec1.1.3-r0
alpine 3.18ntpsec1.1.3-r0
alpine 3.19ntpsec1.1.3-r0
alpine 3.20ntpsec1.1.3-r0
alpine 3.21ntpsec1.1.3-r0
alpine 3.22ntpsec1.1.3-r0
alpine 3.23ntpsec1.1.3-r0
alpine 3.24ntpsec1.1.3-r0
alpine edgentpsec1.1.3-r0
debian 11ntpsec1.1.3+dfsg1-1
debian 12ntpsec1.1.3+dfsg1-1
debian 13ntpsec1.1.3+dfsg1-1
debian 14ntpsec1.1.3+dfsg1-1
echontpsec1.1.3+dfsg1-1
ubuntu 18.04ntpsec1.1.0+dfsg1-1ubuntu0.2
ubuntu 18.04-ESMntpsec1.1.0+dfsg1-1ubuntu0.2
ubuntu 18.10ntpsec1.1.1+dfsg1-2ubuntu0.1

References

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