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F5 Networks: K41613034 (CVE-2016-2519): NTP vulnerability CVE-2016-2519

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
May 11, 2016
Added
Feb 16, 2017
Modified
Sep 16, 2019

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

f5-big-ip-upgrade-latest
Title
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