CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-4957
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-07-05
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-476
Description
ntpd in NTP before 4.2.8p8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a crypto-NAK packet. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2016-1547.
Affected configurations
• ntp ntp 4.2.8
• ntp ntp 4.3.92
• oracle solaris 10
• oracle solaris 11.3
• suse manager proxy 2.1
• suse openstack cloud 5
• novell suse manager 2.1
• opensuse leap 42.1
• opensuse opensuse 13.2
• suse linux enterprise desktop 12
• suse linux enterprise server 11
• suse linux enterprise server 12
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- http://bugs.ntp.org/3046 Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00018.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00023.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00024.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00028.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00040.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Main/NtpBug3046 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Main/SecurityNotice Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/321640 Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036037 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-16:24.ntp.asc Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-15 Third Party Advisory
- http://bugs.ntp.org/3046 Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00018.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00023.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00024.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00028.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00040.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Main/NtpBug3046 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Main/SecurityNotice Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/321640 Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036037 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-16:24.ntp.asc Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-15 Third Party Advisory