CVE-2015-5194: Input Validation

First published: Tue Aug 18 2015(Updated: )

It was found that ntpd could crash due to an uninitialized variable when processing malformed logconfig configuration commands, for example: ntpq -c ":config logconfig a" Upstream patch: <a href="http://bk.ntp.org/ntp-dev/?PAGE=patch&amp;REV=4c4fc141LwvcoGp-lLGhkAFp3ZvtrA">http://bk.ntp.org/ntp-dev/?PAGE=patch&amp;REV=4c4fc141LwvcoGp-lLGhkAFp3ZvtrA</a>

Credit: secalert@redhat.com

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