CVE-2016-4955

Published: Jul 5, 2016Updated: May 6, 2026 Sources: CVE List NVD csafCWE-362

5.9MEDIUM

NVD MITRE

Description

ntpd in NTP 4.x before 4.2.8p8, when autokey is enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (peer-variable clearing and association outage) by sending (1) a spoofed crypto-NAK packet or (2) a packet with an incorrect MAC value at a certain time.

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CVSS Vector Breakdown

Exploitability

AV:NAttack Vector

Network

AC:HAttack Complexity

High

PR:NPrivileges Required

None

UI:NUser Interaction

None

Scope

S:UScope

Unchanged

Impact

C:NConfidentiality

None

I:NIntegrity

None

A:HAvailability

High

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Weaknesses

CWE-362

Affected Products

suse

commercial·DE

manager proxyOn-premNetwork Device

Networking Infrastructure / load-balancer-proxy

openstack cloudOn-prem

Cloud & SaaS / cloud-platform

linux enterprise desktopOn-premOS

Operating Systems / linux-distro

linux enterprise serverOn-premOS

Operating Systems / linux-distro

opensuse

oss-project·DE

leapOn-premOS

Operating Systems / linux-distro

opensuseOn-premOS

Operating Systems / linux-distro

ntp

oss-projectaka ntp daemon

ntpOn-prem

Networking Infrastructure / dns-dhcp-ntp

oracle

commercial·USaka oracle corp.

solarisOS

Operating Systems / unix-bsd

novell

commercial·USaka suse novell, novell suse

suse managerOn-prem

Operating Systems / linux-distro

siemens

commercial·DEaka siemens ag

simatic net cp 443-1 opc ua firmware

ICS / OT / IoT

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Exploitability

2 exploit sources identified

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MITRE ATT&CK

1 technique

Privilege Escalation

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References

http://bugs.ntp.org/3043

bugs.ntp.org

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00018.html

lists.opensuse.org

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00020.html

lists.opensuse.org

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