CVE-2016-1549 (GCVE-0-2016-1549)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-01-06 21:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 23:02
VLAI?
Summary
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.
Severity ?
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • unspecified
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
NTP Project NTP Affected: 4.2.8p3
Affected: 4.2.8p4
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NTPsec Project NTPSec Affected: 3e160db8dc248a0bcb053b56a80167dc742d2b74
Affected: a5fb34b9cc89b92a8fef2f459004865c93bb7f92
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Date Public ?
2016-04-26 00:00
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