CVE-2016-1549

Summary

CVECVE-2016-1549
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2017-01-06 21:59:00 UTC
Updated2018-03-28 01:29:00 UTC
DescriptionA 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-19

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Ntp Ntp 4.2.8 p4 All All
Application Ntp Ntp 4.2.8 p4 All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Oracle Solaris Bulletin - April 2016 CONFIRM www.oracle.com
Document Display | HPE Support Center CONFIRM support.hpe.com
NTP: Multiple vulnerabilities (GLSA 201607-15) — Gentoo Security GENTOO security.gentoo.org
Cisco Talos - Talos 2016 0083 MISC www.talosintelligence.com Mitigation, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
April 2016 Network Time Protocol Daemon (ntpd) Vulnerabilities in Multiple NetApp Products | NetApp Product Security CONFIRM security.netapp.com
ntp Multiple Bugs Let Remote Users Spoof Messages, Obtain Potentially Sensitive Information, Modify Time, and Deny Service - SecurityTracker SECTRACK www.securitytracker.com
Synology Inc. CONFIRM www.synology.com
NTP CVE-2016-1549 Remote Security Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com
FreeBSD-SA-16:16 FREEBSD security.FreeBSD.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 296087 Oracle Solaris 11.4 Support Repository Update (SRU) 8.1.5 Missing (CPUAPR2019)
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