CVE-2014-9750: Debian Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 5.8. EPSS: 6.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

ntp_crypto.c in ntpd in NTP 4.x before 4.2.8p1, when Autokey Authentication is enabled, allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information from process memory or cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a packet containing an extension field with an invalid value for the length of its value field.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 7.0 only; version 8.0 only; version 9.0 only
• Ntp Ntp: from 4.2.0, before 4.2.8 (fixed in 4.2.8); version 4.2.8 only
• Oracle Linux: version 7 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop: version 6.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server: version 6.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation: version 6.0 only

Published 2015-10-06. Last modified 2026-06-17.