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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2016-4956: ntp security update

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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2016-4956: ntp security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
07/04/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
11/30/2017
Modified
06/22/2020

Description

ntpd in NTP 4.x before 4.2.8p8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (interleaved-mode transition and time change) via a spoofed broadcast packet. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2016-1548.

Solution(s)

  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp1-upgrade-ntp
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp1-upgrade-ntpdate

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