Description
An off-path attacker can cause a preemptible client association to be demobilized in NTP 4.2.8p4 and earlier and NTPSec a5fb34b9cc89b92a8fef2f459004865c93bb7f92 by sending a crypto NAK packet to a victim client with a spoofed source address of an existing associated peer. This is true even if authentication is enabled.
Published: 2017-01-06
Score: 5.3 Medium
EPSS: 3.7% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-559-1 ntp security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-3629-1 ntp security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2016-2642 An off-path attacker can cause a preemptible client association to be demobilized in NTP 4.2.8p4 and earlier and NTPSec a5fb34b9cc89b92a8fef2f459004865c93bb7f92 by sending a crypto NAK packet to a victim client with a spoofed source address of an existing associated peer. This is true even if authentication is enabled.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-3096-1 NTP vulnerabilities
History

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: certcc

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T23:02:11.962Z

Reserved: 2016-01-07T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2016-1547

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2017-01-06T21:59:00.320

Modified: 2026-05-06T22:30:45.220

Link: CVE-2016-1547

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2016-04-26T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2016-1547 - Bugzilla

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Weaknesses