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IBM AIX: ntp_advisory10 (CVE-2016-1549): Multiple vulnerabilities in NTPv3 and NTPv4 that impact AIX

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Severity	CVSS	Published	Added	Modified
4	(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N)	2017-01-06	2018-08-16	2025-05-05

Severity

CVSS

(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N)

Published

2017-01-06

Added

2018-08-16

Modified

2025-05-05

Description

A malicious authenticated peer can create arbitrarily-many ephemeral associations in order to win the clock selection algorithm in ntpd in NTP 4.2.8p4 and earlier and NTPsec 3e160db8dc248a0bcb053b56a80167dc742d2b74 and a5fb34b9cc89b92a8fef2f459004865c93bb7f92 and modify a victim's clock.

Solution

ibm-aix-ntp_advisory10

References

CVE-2016-1549
https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2016-1549
URL-https://aix.software.ibm.com/aix/efixes/security/ntp_advisory10.asc

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