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Ubuntu: USN-3349-1 (CVE-2016-7431): NTP vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-3349-1 (CVE-2016-7431): NTP vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
01/13/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
07/06/2017
Modified
09/12/2020

Description

NTP before 4.2.8p9 allows remote attackers to bypass the origin timestamp protection mechanism via an origin timestamp of zero. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of a CVE-2015-8138 regression.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-ntp

References

  • USN-3349-1
  • USN-3707-2
  • 94454
  • 1037354
  • FreeBSD-SA-16:39
  • CVE-2016-7431

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