Information Exposure The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package ntp  (opens in a new tab)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-373122
  • published6 Jan 2017
  • disclosed6 Jan 2017

Introduced: 6 Jan 2017

CVE-2016-1550  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (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.

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.

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