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Ubuntu: USN-3096-1 (CVE-2016-1550): NTP vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-3096-1 (CVE-2016-1550): NTP vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
10/05/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/07/2016
Modified
04/25/2018

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(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-ntp

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