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CVE-2016-1549

Publication date 6 January 2017

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Negligible

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.5 · Medium

Score breakdown

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.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
ntp 16.04 LTS xenial Ignored
15.10 wily Ignored
14.04 LTS trusty Ignored
12.04 LTS precise Ignored

Notes

mdeslaur

upstream proposes mitigation only

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 6.5 · Medium
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required Low
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact High
Availability impact None
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N