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    CVE-2016-1549

    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.

    Published:Apr 26, 2016
    Last Modified:Apr 20, 2025
    EPS:Jan 6, 2017
    EPSS Score:0.01053
    CVSS Score:6.5

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Ntp
    Product
    Ntp

    Exploits

    No exploit reference

    Common Weakness Enumeration

    No CWE recorded yet

    Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

    No CAPEC recorded yet

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    References

    http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
    http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/88200
    http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035705
    http://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0083/
    https://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-16:16.ntp.asc
    https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-15
    https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20171004-0002/
    https://support.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docLocale=en_US&docId=emr_na-hpesbux03962en_us
    https://www.synology.com/support/security/Synology_SA_18_13
    http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
    http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/88200
    http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035705
    http://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0083/
    https://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-16:16.ntp.asc
    https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-15
    https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20171004-0002/
    https://support.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docLocale=en_US&docId=emr_na-hpesbux03962en_us
    https://www.synology.com/support/security/Synology_SA_18_13

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    User Interaction
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    Integrity
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