Information Exposure Affecting ntp package, versions [0,4.2.8p7)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.45% (76th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-NTP-2382695
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed6 Jan 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 6 Jan 2017

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

How to fix?

Upgrade ntp to version 4.2.8p7 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure. 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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