Product Affected

This issue affects all products and platforms running Junos OS.
Critical
9.8 (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Problem

NTP.org has published security advisories for vulnerabilities resolved in ntpd (NTP daemon). The following is a summary of the vulnerabilities that may impact Junos OS:

CVE CVSS Summary
CVE-2016-1549 6.5 ( CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N ) A malicious authenticated peer can create arbitrarily-many ephemeral associations in order to win the clock selection algorithm in ntpd in NTP 4.2.8p4 and earlier and NTPsec 3e160db8dc248a0bcb053b56a80167dc742d2b74 and a5fb34b9cc89b92a8fef2f459004865c93bb7f92 and modify a victim's clock.
CVE-2018-7170 5.3 ( CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N ) ntpd in ntp 4.2.x before 4.2.8p7 and 4.3.x before 4.3.92 allows authenticated users that know the private symmetric key to create arbitrarily-many ephemeral associations in order to win the clock selection of ntpd and modify a victim's clock via a Sybil attack. This issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2016-1549.
CVE-2018-7182 7.5 ( CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H ) The ctl_getitem method in ntpd in ntp-4.2.8p6 before 4.2.8p11 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via a crafted mode 6 packet with a ntpd instance from 4.2.8p6 through 4.2.8p10.
CVE-2018-7184 7.5 ( CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H ) ntpd in ntp 4.2.8p4 before 4.2.8p11 drops bad packets before updating the "received" timestamp, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (disruption) by sending a packet with a zero-origin timestamp causing the association to reset and setting the contents of the packet as the most recent timestamp. This issue is a result of an incomplete fix for CVE-2015-7704.
CVE-2018-7185 7.5 ( CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H ) The protocol engine in ntp 4.2.6 before 4.2.8p11 allows a remote attackers to cause a denial of service (disruption) by continually sending a packet with a zero-origin timestamp and source IP address of the "other side" of an interleaved association causing the victim ntpd to reset its association.
CVE-2018-7183 9.8 ( CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H ) Buffer overflow in the decodearr function in ntpq in ntp 4.2.8p6 through 4.2.8p10 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by leveraging an ntpq query and sending a response with a crafted array.

 

Solution

The following software releases have been updated to resolve these specific issues: Junos OS 12.1X46-D77, 12.3R12-S10, 12.3R13, 12.3X48-D70, 12.3X54-D34, 14.1X53-D47, 15.1R4-S9, 15.1R7-S1, 15.1X49-D140, 15.1X53-D234, 15.1X53-D471, 15.1X53-D490, 15.1X53-D59, 15.1X53-D67, 16.1R4-S9, 16.1R6-S4, 16.1R7, 16.2R1-S7, 16.2R2-S6, 16.2R3, 17.1R1-S7, 17.1R2-S7, 17.1R3, 17.2R1-S6, 17.2R2-S4, 17.2R3, 17.3R1-S5, 17.3R2-S2, 17.3R3, 17.4R1-S4, 17.4R2, 18.1R2, 18.2R1, 18.2X75-D5, 18.3R1, and all subsequent releases.

These issues are being tracked as PR 1343195 which is visible on the Customer Support website.

Note: Juniper SIRT's policy is not to evaluate releases which are beyond End of Engineering (EOE) or End of Life (EOL).
 

Software Releases, patches and updates are available at https://www.juniper.net/support/downloads/ .
 

Workaround

Standard security best current practices (control plane firewall filters, edge filtering, access lists, etc.) will protect against any remote malicious attacks against NTP. Customers who have already applied the workaround described in JSA10613 [juniper.net] are already protected against any remote exploitation of these vulnerabilities.  Refer to the Workaround section of JSA10613 [juniper.net] for specific applicable IPv4 mitigation techniques.

The firewall filters in the Workaround section of JSA10613 [juniper.net] can also be updated or duplicated to protect IPv6 port 123/udp using ' next-header udp ' and ' port ntp '.
 

Modification History

​2018-10-10: Initial publication

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