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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2016-2516: Vulnerability in NTP

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Jan 30, 2017
Added
May 29, 2017
Modified
Feb 1, 2022

Description

NTP before 4.2.8p7 and 4.3.x before 4.3.92, when mode7 is enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (ntpd abort) by using the same IP address multiple times in an unconfig directive.

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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