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Debian: CVE-2016-2519: ntp -- security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Jan 30, 2017
Added
Jul 30, 2024
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

ntpd in NTP before 4.2.8p7 and 4.3.x before 4.3.92 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (ntpd abort) by a large request data value, which triggers the ctl_getitem function to return a NULL value.

Solution

debian-upgrade-ntp
Title
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