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CentOS: (CVE-2015-7979) CESA-2016:1141: ntp

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CentOS: (CVE-2015-7979) CESA-2016:1141: ntp

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
02/09/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
05/31/2016
Modified
05/07/2019

Description

NTP before 4.2.8p6 and 4.3.x before 4.3.90 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (client-server association tear down) by sending broadcast packets with invalid authentication to a broadcast client.

Solution(s)

  • centos-upgrade-ntp
  • centos-upgrade-ntp-doc
  • centos-upgrade-ntp-perl
  • centos-upgrade-ntpdate
  • centos-upgrade-sntp

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