vulnerability

Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2016-7426: Security patch for ntp (ALAS-2018-1009)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
2017-01-13
Added
2020-04-27
Modified
2025-05-05

Description

NTP before 4.2.8p9 rate limits responses received from the configured sources when rate limiting for all associations is enabled, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (prevent responses from the sources) by sending responses with a spoofed source address.

Solution(s)

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