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CVE-2016-1550
published 2017-01-06

CVE-2016-1550: An exploitable vulnerability exists in the message authentication functionality of libntp in ntp 4.2.8p4 and NTPSec a5fb34b9cc89b92a8fef2f459004865c93bb7f92…

PriorityP433medium5.3CVSS 3.0
AVNACLPRNUINSUCLINAN
EPSS
3.63%
88.3th percentile
An exploitable vulnerability exists in the message authentication functionality of libntp in ntp 4.2.8p4 and NTPSec a5fb34b9cc89b92a8fef2f459004865c93bb7f92. An attacker can send a series of crafted messages to attempt to recover the message digest key.

Affected

8 ranges
VendorProductVersion rangeFixed in
debianntp< ntp 1:4.2.8p7+dfsg-1 (bullseye)ntp 1:4.2.8p7+dfsg-1 (bullseye)
ntpntp
ntpntp>= 0 < 1:4.2.8p7+dfsg-11:4.2.8p7+dfsg-1
ntpntp>= 0 < 1:4.2.6.p5+dfsg-3ubuntu2.14.04.101:4.2.6.p5+dfsg-3ubuntu2.14.04.10
ntpntp>= 0 < 1:4.2.8p4+dfsg-3ubuntu5.31:4.2.8p4+dfsg-3ubuntu5.3
ntp_projectntp
ntp_projectntp
ntpsec_projectntpsec

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.05.3MEDIUMCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
nvdv2.05.0MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
osv6.5MEDIUM
vendor_ubuntu6.5MEDIUM
vendor_cisco5.3MEDIUM
vendor_debian5.3MEDIUM
vendor_redhat5.3MEDIUM
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