CVEvulnerability

CVE-2015-1799

4.3 MEDIUM Published 2015-04-08 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2015-04-08
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.3 MEDIUM — AV:A/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-17

Description

The symmetric-key feature in the receive function in ntp_proto.c in ntpd in NTP 3.x and 4.x before 4.2.8p2 performs state-variable updates upon receiving certain invalid packets, which makes it easier for man-in-the-middle attackers to cause a denial of service (synchronization loss) by spoofing the source IP address of a peer.

Affected configurations

• ntp ntp (<= 4.2.7p444)

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

References