Insufficient Entropy The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package ntp  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-NTP-373040
  • published9 Aug 2017
  • disclosed9 Aug 2017

Introduced: 9 Aug 2017

CVE-2015-3405  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-331  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Debian security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Debian:unstable.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ntp package and not the ntp package as distributed by Debian.

ntp-keygen in ntp 4.2.8px before 4.2.8p2-RC2 and 4.3.x before 4.3.12 does not generate MD5 keys with sufficient entropy on big endian machines when the lowest order byte of the temp variable is between 0x20 and 0x7f and not #, which might allow remote attackers to obtain the value of generated MD5 keys via a brute force attack with the 93 possible keys.