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Cisco XE: CVE-2016-4953: Multiple Vulnerabilities in Network Time Protocol Daemon Affecting Cisco Products: June 2016

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jul 5, 2016
Added
Jul 30, 2019
Modified
Jan 5, 2024

Description

ntpd in NTP 4.x before 4.2.8p8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (ephemeral-association demobilization) by sending a spoofed crypto-NAK packet with incorrect authentication data at a certain time.

Solution

cisco-xe-upgrade-latest
Title
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