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Cisco NX-OS: Multiple Vulnerabilities in Network Time Protocol Daemon Affecting Cisco Products: June 2016 (Multiple CVEs)

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Cisco NX-OS: Multiple Vulnerabilities in Network Time Protocol Daemon Affecting Cisco Products: June 2016 (Multiple CVEs)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
07/04/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
01/05/2017
Modified
03/21/2018

Description

ntpd in NTP before 4.2.8p8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a crypto-NAK packet. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2016-1547.

Solution(s)

  • update-nxos

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