CVE-2016-2517 (GCVE-0-2016-2517)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-01-30 21:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 23:32
VLAI
Summary
NTP before 4.2.8p7 and 4.3.x before 4.3.92 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (prevent subsequent authentication) by leveraging knowledge of the controlkey or requestkey and sending a crafted packet to ntpd, which changes the value of trustedkey, controlkey, or requestkey. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of a CVE-2016-2516 regression.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Main/NtpBug3010 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/88189 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/718152 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VN
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035705 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security… x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-2017100… x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-S… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FREEBSD
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-15 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
Date Public
2016-02-03 00:00
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