vulnerability

NTP: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ('Resource Exhaustion') (CVE-2016-7428)

Severity
3
CVSS
(AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jan 13, 2017
Added
Feb 23, 2023
Modified
Mar 1, 2023

Description

ntpd in NTP before 4.2.8p9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (reject broadcast mode packets) via the poll interval in a broadcast packet.

Solution

ntp-upgrade-latest

References

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