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Ubuntu: USN-3349-1 (CVE-2016-2519): NTP vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-3349-1 (CVE-2016-2519): NTP vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
05/11/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
07/06/2017
Modified
09/12/2020

Description

ntpd in NTP before 4.2.8p7 and 4.3.x before 4.3.92 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (ntpd abort) by a large request data value, which triggers the ctl_getitem function to return a NULL value.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-ntp

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