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CVE-2016-1549

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CVE-2016-1549

Published: Jan 6, 2017

Modified: Aug 5, 2024

PUBLISHED

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.

VendorProductVersions

NTP Project

NTP

affected
4.2.8p3
affected
4.2.8p4

NTPsec Project

NTPSec

affected
3e160db8dc248a0bcb053b56a80167dc742d2b74
affected
a5fb34b9cc89b92a8fef2f459004865c93bb7f92

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