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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2016-2516: Security patch for ntp (ALAS-2016-708)

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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2016-2516: Security patch for ntp (ALAS-2016-708)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
05/11/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
07/01/2017
Modified
03/02/2020

Description

NTP before 4.2.8p7 and 4.3.x before 4.3.92, when mode7 is enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (ntpd abort) by using the same IP address multiple times in an unconfig directive.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-upgrade-ntp

References

  • ALAS-2016-708
  • DLA-559-1
  • DSA-3629
  • 88180
  • 1035705
  • FreeBSD-SA-16:16
  • GLSA-201607-15
  • USN-3096-1
  • CVE-2016-2516
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