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CVE-2016-4955

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Date: July 4, 2016

ntpd in NTP 4.x before 4.2.8p8, when autokey is enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (peer-variable clearing and association outage) by sending (1) a spoofed crypto-NAK packet or (2) a packet with an incorrect MAC value at a certain time.

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Related Resources (5)

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00020.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00023.html
http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Main/NtpBug3043
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-4955
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2016-4955

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Weakness Type (CWE)

Race Conditions

CWE-362

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CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC): HIGH
Privileges Required (PR): NONE
User Interaction (UI): NONE
Scope (S): UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C): NONE
Integrity (I): NONE
Availability (A): HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:
Access Vector (AV): NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC): MEDIUM
Authentication (AU): NONE
Confidentiality (C): NONE
Integrity (I): NONE
Availability (A): PARTIAL
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