CVE-2016-1549
N/A
Published: January 6, 2017 at 09:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 12:42 AM UTC
2 products affected across 2 vendorsNTPNTPSec
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 3%
Description
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.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
References (9)
x_refsource_CONFIRM
Source: [email protected]
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.htmlx_refsource_MISCMitigationTechnical DescriptionThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0083/Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_FREEBSD
Source: [email protected]
https://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-16:16.ntp.ascVendor Advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
Source: [email protected]
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-15x_refsource_CONFIRM
Source: [email protected]
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20171004-0002/Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-19
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