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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2016-7431): NTP vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Jan 13, 2017
Added
Jul 6, 2017
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

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

ubuntu-upgrade-ntp
Title
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