Meinberg IMS-LANTIME up to 6.20 NTP Time Server POST Request memory corruption

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Meinberg IMS-LANTIME up to 6.20. It has been classified as critical. This affects an unknown part of the component NTP Time Server. The manipulation as part of POST Request leads to memory corruption. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2016-3988. The attack can be initiated remotely. There is not any exploit available. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

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A vulnerability was found in Meinberg IMS-LANTIME up to 6.20. It has been rated as critical. This issue affects an unknown code block of the component NTP Time Server. The manipulation as part of a POST Request leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-119. The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in the NTP time-server interface on Meinberg IMS-LANTIME M3000, IMS-LANTIME M1000, IMS-LANTIME M500, LANTIME M900, LANTIME M600, LANTIME M400, LANTIME M300, LANTIME M200, LANTIME M100, SyncFire 1100, and LCES devices with firmware before 6.20.004 allow remote attackers to obtain sensitive information, modify data, or cause a denial of service via a crafted parameter in a POST request.

The weakness was released 07/03/2016 (Website). The advisory is shared at ics-cert.us-cert.gov. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2016-3988 since 04/08/2016. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available.

Upgrading to version 6.20.004 eliminates this vulnerability.

Entries connected to this vulnerability are available at VDB-88540 and VDB-88542. If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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• Meinberg

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• IMS-LANTIME

Version

• 6.0
• 6.1
• 6.2
• 6.3
• 6.4
• 6.5
• 6.6
• 6.7
• 6.8
• 6.9
• 6.10
• 6.11
• 6.12
• 6.13
• 6.14
• 6.15
• 6.16
• 6.17
• 6.18
• 6.19
• 6.20

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