CVE-2016-1549 (GCVE-0-2016-1549)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2017-01-06 21:00
Modified
2024-08-05 23:02
Severity ?
CWE
  • unspecified
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.
References
cret@cert.org http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
cret@cert.org http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/88200
cret@cert.org http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035705
cret@cert.org http://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0083/ Mitigation, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
cret@cert.org https://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-16:16.ntp.asc
cret@cert.org https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-15
cret@cert.org https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20171004-0002/
cret@cert.org https://support.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docLocale=en_US&docId=emr_na-hpesbux03962en_us
cret@cert.org https://www.synology.com/support/security/Synology_SA_18_13
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/88200
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035705
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0083/ Mitigation, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-16:16.ntp.asc
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-15
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20171004-0002/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://support.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docLocale=en_US&docId=emr_na-hpesbux03962en_us
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://www.synology.com/support/security/Synology_SA_18_13
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
NTP Project NTP Version: 4.2.8p3
Version: 4.2.8p4
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   NTPsec Project NTPSec Version: 3e160db8dc248a0bcb053b56a80167dc742d2b74
Version: a5fb34b9cc89b92a8fef2f459004865c93bb7f92
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