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Debian: CVE-2016-7431: ntp -- security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Jan 13, 2017
Added
Jul 30, 2024
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

NTP before 4.2.8p9 allows remote attackers to bypass the origin timestamp protection mechanism via an origin timestamp of zero. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of a CVE-2015-8138 regression.

Solution

debian-upgrade-ntp
Title
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