CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-1549
6.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-01-06
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-19
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• ntp ntp 4.2.8
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html www.oracle.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/88200 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035705 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0083/ Mitigation, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-16:16.ntp.asc security.FreeBSD.org
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-15 security.gentoo.org
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20171004-0002/ security.netapp.com
- https://support.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docLocale=en_US&docId=emr_na-hpesbux03962en_us support.hpe.com
- https://www.synology.com/support/security/Synology_SA_18_13 www.synology.com
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html www.oracle.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/88200 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035705 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0083/ Mitigation, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-16:16.ntp.asc security.FreeBSD.org
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-15 security.gentoo.org
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20171004-0002/ security.netapp.com
- https://support.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docLocale=en_US&docId=emr_na-hpesbux03962en_us support.hpe.com
- https://www.synology.com/support/security/Synology_SA_18_13 www.synology.com