vulnerability

F5 Networks: K13304944 (CVE-2015-7974): NTP vulnerability CVE-2015-7974

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Jan 26, 2016
Added
Feb 16, 2017
Modified
Aug 25, 2020

Description

NTP 4.x before 4.2.8p6 and 4.3.x before 4.3.90 do not verify peer associations of symmetric keys when authenticating packets, which might allow remote attackers to conduct impersonation attacks via an arbitrary trusted key, aka a "skeleton key."

Solution

f5-big-ip-upgrade-latest
Title
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