cve/2015/CVE-2015-7978.md

### [CVE-2015-7978](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-7978)
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### Description

NTP before 4.2.8p6 and 4.3.0 before 4.3.90 allows a remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack exhaustion) via an ntpdc relist command, which triggers recursive traversal of the restriction list.

### POC

#### Reference
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinapr2016-2952096.html
- https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/718152

#### Github
No PoCs found on GitHub currently.