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.
Published: 2017-01-06
Score: 6.5 Medium
EPSS: 3.1% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Remediation

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Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2016-2644 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.
History

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Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics epss

{'score': 0.01045}

epss

{'score': 0.00981}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: certcc

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T23:02:12.001Z

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

Link: CVE-2016-1549

cve-icon Vulnrichment

No data.

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2017-01-06T21:59:00.383

Modified: 2026-06-17T00:42:08.920

Link: CVE-2016-1549

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

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

Links: CVE-2016-1549 - Bugzilla

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Weaknesses