CVE-2019-6445

Publication date 16 January 2019

Last updated 25 August 2025


Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.5 · Medium

Score breakdown

Description

An issue was discovered in NTPsec before 1.1.3. An authenticated attacker can cause a NULL pointer dereference and ntpd crash in ntp_control.c, related to ctl_getitem.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
ntpsec 18.10 cosmic
Fixed 1.1.1+dfsg1-2ubuntu0.1
18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed 1.1.0+dfsg1-1ubuntu0.2
16.04 LTS xenial Not in release
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 6.5 · Medium

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


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