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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2016-1550: Vulnerability in NTP

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Jan 6, 2017
Added
May 29, 2017
Modified
Feb 1, 2022

Description

An exploitable vulnerability exists in the message authentication functionality of libntp in ntp 4.2.8p4 and NTPSec a5fb34b9cc89b92a8fef2f459004865c93bb7f92. An attacker can send a series of crafted messages to attempt to recover the message digest key.

Solution

oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-service-network-ntp-4-2-8-8-0-175-3-12-0-1-0
Title
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