vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2016-5117: openntpd -- security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Jan 31, 2017
Added
Jul 30, 2024
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

OpenNTPD before 6.0p1 does not validate the CN for HTTPS constraint requests, which allows remote attackers to bypass the man-in-the-middle mitigations via a crafted timestamp constraint with a valid certificate.

Solution

debian-upgrade-openntpd
Title
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