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F5: CVE-2016-2516: K24613253: NTP vulnerability CVE-2016-2516

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Severity

CVSS

(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)

Published

May 25, 2016

Added

Jun 17, 2026

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Description

NTP before 4.2.8p7 and 4.3.x before 4.3.92, when mode7 is enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (ntpd abort) by using the same IP address multiple times in an unconfig directive

Solution

f5-bigip-upgrade-latest

References

CVE-2016-2516
https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2016-2516
https://my.f5.com/manage/s/article/K24613253
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2016-3594
CWE-20
EUVD-EUVD-2016-3594

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